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TIL a new breed of dog was created in the 70’s by breeding huskies down to toy size. The Alaskan Klee Kai.

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9Y0dG TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
78Y9Z TIL of the iQue Player, a handheld Nintendo 64 system released only in China after video game consoles were banned there in 2003. Content servers were still up until 2018.
YpJNd TIL that bilinguals experience tip-of-the-tongue moments twice as often as monolinguals. Processing two languages at the same time comes with a computational cost. Although, this kind of “multitasking” trains the brain.
wgnY TIL Another cockroach superpower: they need less than one photon per second to see in the dark, and scientists don’t know why.
7wPx TIL Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems in 1771 after eating a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, champagne, and 14 servings of his favorite dessert, semla in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered by schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death.”