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TIL that puppies are born deaf for 2 to 3 weeks until their ear canals open.

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XEWeQ TIL that the film It's a Wonderful Life was initially a flop that bankrupted a studio and ended legendary careers until it entered public domain.
WkPrd TIL the actor Richard Edson -- who played the parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- was the original drummer for Sonic Youth before going into acting
WLGL TIL that the CEO of Olympus was fired when he discovered that $1.6billion of the company’s money had been paid to the yakuza.
lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
8MjV TIL a woman with her daughter tried to board a plane from Berlin to Manchester with her dead husband in a wheel chair in order to avoid the fees associated with transporting a corpse. She claimed that, “he always sleeps like that,” when authorities asked about his slouched appearance.