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TIL sniffer dogs used for finding illegal substances are largely inaccurate, with 4 in 5 ‘positive’ cases being wrong.

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bQK9 TIL Sniper bullets can hit targets so far away that the sniper needs to take the spin of the Earth into account (The Coriolis Drift)
x6L5B TIL: Clyde Tombaugh, the man that discovered Pluto in 1930, is the great uncle to MLB pitcher Clayton Kershaw.
epZX4 TIL Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion
e0lpL TIL that in Western Australia there is a giant abandoned American military base that is a slice of 60’s Americana. Bowling alleys, baseball fields and signs telling you to drive on the right hand side of the road.
RQX9 TIL Joe Strummer, from The Clash, wept when he learned “Rock the Casbah” was written on a bomb dropped during Operation Desert Storm.