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TIL that a dog in Elkmont, Alabama joined a half-marathon race in town after leaving its own backyard and wandering to the starting line, finishing with a time which would have placed her 7th

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NXExN TIL that by using the McDonald’s app for online orders, you automatically enter into an arbitration agreement, meaning you waive your right to sue the company in court. 🍔📱
xY55 TIL that Willie Nelson’s (ex) wife sewed him up in a sheet and beat him with a broomstick. His comment: “She was a very classy, ingenious, brilliant lady, and I was a problem at times.”
Bb6d TIL in Japan if someone on trial is filmed while in handcuffs their hands have to be pixelated to be shown on TV. This is because a man named Kazuyoshi Miura brought a succesful case to court arguing the image of him in handcuffs implied guilt and had prejudiced his trial.
l41G TIL that a 2004 marketing study described Generation X as “the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history.”
VB7Mp TIL In 1848, Poe wrote a prose poem called Eureka, in which he speculated that the universe began from a single point that expanded outward. While not scientifically precise, his ideas eerily resemble modern concepts of the Big Bang nearly 80 years before it was proposed.