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Today I Learned that there is a myth in Iceland about the Yule Cat. He eats people that don't get new clothes for Christmas.

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rNo1 TIL that 99% of all puppies sold at pet stores come from puppy mills.
JYpRk TIL that drug smugglers have SUCCESSFULLY used carrier pigeons to smuggle drugs. Wow.
d8OkB TIL Merv Griffin's wife, Julann came up with the format for Jeopardy! in response to the U.S. quiz show scandals of a few years earlier in 1963, when she proposed this idea to him: “Well, why don’t you give them the answers? And make people come up with the questions?”
grDMX TIL that after the 1855 death of the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, his brain was preserved for study and became the subject of numerous papers. It was only discovered in 1998 that the his label had gotten swapped with that of the brain of pathologist Conrad Fuchs who died the same year.
e0pXg TIL in the 1960's NASA funded a study attempting to get dolphins to speak English, wherein a woman lived in a partially flooded house with a dolphin, they took LSD together, and she gave the dolphin handjobs. Ultimately, they discovered it was not possible to teach a dolphin to speak English.