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TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.

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R7n0j Humpback whales are far better known for their bellowing "songs" that can travel up to six miles, but the animals also have quiet voices. Biologists have observed humpback calves “whispering” to their mothers in tones that can be heard only within 330 feet—a strategy to prevent predators, such as orcas, from eavesdropping. Calves also want to avoid adult male humpbacks, which may try to separate the calf from its mother to mate. This shortened time with its mom could ultimately weaken the calf, which needs to drink 50 gallons of milk a day to fuel up for its long migration.
kJZQ5 TIL of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law where a chosen actor is connected to another actor via a film in which both actors appear: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to actor Kevin Bacon.
GYdE5 TIL that in 1997 the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial
VBwe4 TIL during the US Invasion of Somalia (Operation Restore Hope) Navy SEALs swam ashore only to be surrounded by reporters who had been tipped off of the coming invasion by a Lieutenant General in a public briefing the day before
JYD01 TIL that there is a National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, and one of their Hot Dog Etiquette tips is that you can NOT use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.