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TIL four-legged animals like horses and dogs don't have backwards knees. Those joints are actually their ankles, which bend in the same direction as our ankles do.

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LQyRZ TIL H.H. Holmes, a 19th-century serial killer, built the "Murder Castle" in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The hotel had soundproof rooms and hidden passages, allowing Holmes to lure and brutally murder unsuspecting guests, primarily young women.
GAX5g TIL the finale of MAS*H had 106 million viewers as compared to the finale of The Sopranos, which had 11.9 million
nWmD7 TIL the difference between liberal social justice and critical social justice
4X5m6 TIL people who cook from printed recipes are less likely to have a high BMI than those who get recipes from cooking shows or social media
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.