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TIL that African wild dogs have a sneeze based voting system

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EZMo TIL that Michaelangelo began dissecting cadavers at age 17 and Johns Hopkins researchers now believe he painted God with an anatomically correct brain stem on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
wLGY7 TIL of "Bobst Boy," an NYU student who lived in the basement of the campus library for eight months because he couldn't pay for campus housing. NYU offered him free housing and financial assistance until graduation, and he now has a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University.
pYMwQ TIL that as a joke, astronauts would later comprise the Apollo 15 crew, added pictures of two Playboy Playmates to the technical checklists of the crew of Apollo 12.
wLmJE TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
7jEZ TIL that during the first four days of World War II pet-owners in London queued up at animal shelters to put down their dogs and cats. More than 400,000 animals died. There was no government order to do so; nor was there any economic need.