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TIL dog farts are silent but deadly because they have a horizontal rectum, making their sphincter looser, resulting in quieter farts.

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OG6La TIL that "Jingle Bells" was originally a Thanksgiving song! Written by James Lord Piermont in 1857 for his church's Thanksgiving concert, the catchy tune was initially associated with expressing gratitude during the Thanksgiving season. Over time, it became more closely linked with Christmas and is
enyE TIL Aquinas said that rape is less serious than masturbation because at least in the case of rape the genitalia are being used for their proper purpose and conception might result.
pmdN TIL that in late 2007, a street in Central London had to be shut down due to reports of a chemical weapons attack. It was actually a Thai restaurant cooking up hot sauce.
OZn7 TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”
p8vVe TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.