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TIL Bomb and Drug sniffing dogs will eventually develop psychological problems if they never find any, and must occasionally be taken on dummy missions to satisfy their ‘prey-drive.’

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NX7lb TIL in the 18th century, rich people usually owned a large wig for formal occasions and a smaller one to wear at home. Wigs were a status symbol and were also the target of thieves due to how costly some of them were. Those who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their real hair look like one.
R7bZl TIL one of the last wishes of Terry Pratchet, author of the Discworld Universe, was to have all his unfinished works crushed by a steamroller. The author’s wishes were fulfilled in 2015 when he passed from Alzheimer’s and the reason for it was so his work wasn’t mishandled after his death.
4XLyJ TIL in 2004, an R-rated director's cut of Daredevil was released, reincorporating 30 minutes, including a subplot involving a character played by Coolio, and it received critical acclaim from critics and was considered a massive improvement over the theatrical version
5pnQ TIL that Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver who purchased a painting from a thrift shop for $5, only to find out that it may be a Jackson Pollock, turned down an offer of US $9 million from a Saudi Arabian buyer.
VMwJB TIL about a theory on human’s relationship with mind-altering-substances like the DMT. It asserts that in order for our body to even be able to interact with some of these chemical compounds, our genetics must have been interacting with them for a really long time.