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TIL the St Bernard in Beethoven 1 & 2 was named “Chris” and he retired to a farm when he got too old to act (also there are 8 Beethoven movies)

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EgrEo TIL that when women become pregnant, their periods stop temporarily.
044M TIL La Rinconada, Peru the highest elevated city on earth has a goldmine where miners work for 30 days without pay. On the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.
VMEMD TIL of the "Ghost Blimp" that floated into Daly, CA with all parachutes and working equipment on board and no sign of the crew
mxPey TIL about Han purple and Han blue. They are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (circa 220 AD).
GApRg TIL that in its 30 years of operation from 1967 to 1997, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation only developed one new, from the ground up aircraft. It was the C-17 Globemaster III.