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TIL the Sarah McLachlan dog commercial has been one of the most successful non-profit fundraising ads…ever.

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YpGxB TIL blond hair among the dark-skinned indigenous people of the Solomon Islands is caused by homegrown genetic variants distinct from the gene that leads to blond hair in Europeans.
bd77 TIL a four year old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles Anderson
68Zl TIL that Shanghai’s population is 24 million, more than the entire population of Australia, packed into a city half the size of Sydney.
LkRDv TIL all snails are hermaphrodites. No wonder they’re never in a rush...
VyL8 TIL the top generals of both Canada and The United States met on multiple occasions to explore the possibility of creating a unified North American military force.