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TIL a Soviet doctor in Antarctica contracted appendicitis. Left with no other choice, he removed his own appendix.

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PngL TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, Hitler did not destroy the Canadian Vimy Memorial and told the Allies that it remained intact, as he admired the peaceful nature of the sculpture
GAkg4 TIL Dogs sniff at a rate of 5 sniffs per second, the same rate as when they pant.
J1Pvl TIL in 2012, a tour group visiting Iceland announced that they had lost track of a group member. A woman decided to help with the intense police search to find the fellow traveler. The search lasted for several hours, before the woman realized that the person everyone was searching for was herself.
XEg8E TIL A tortoiseshell cat named Towser holds the Guinness World Record for most mice caught at 28,899. She was so famous that a statue was erected of her in the city where she lived, and her paw prints are marked on every bottle of Fairlie’s Light Highland Liqueur.
691DW TIL crows can report on what they've seen, and change how they report it based on how they are asked to do so.