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TIL That the tested animal with the best memory, Chaser the border collie knows 1022 toys by name and can gather them all by name or category. She can also understand common nouns and can infer the meaning of new ones based on words she already knows

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kRKg TIL Eddie Van Halen’s guitar solo on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” caused a speaker to catch on fire during its recording
b9G44 TIL that the average full time online poker player sits at their computer around 6 hours a day
PYxnw “It’s known that four cups or more of coffee lowers the risk for heart attack, stroke, and diabetes”
lom71 TIL Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid, was not considered a Sci-Fi writer however, he predicted the invention of both the machine gun & the Air Force in his book 'The Wicked Prince' written in 1840.
vPjXj TIL: Keep Calm and Carry On was the third of three posters designed by the UK's Ministry of Information in April 1939. Nearly 2.5 million copies were printed in the weeks before WWII, but almost all were subsequently pulped when public response to the first two posters was overwhelmingly negative.