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TIL the real-life dog from the doge meme was rescued from a kill shelter after the puppy mill that bred her closed down. Some of the other dogs in the group were adopted, but most of them were killed.

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nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
pRDZ TIL that on Nov. 20, 1980, an oil rig accidentally drilled into a salt mine under Lake Peigneur causing a maelstrom which started a chain of events that turned the lake from freshwater to salt water and temporarily created the largest waterfall in Louisiana.
nWLgb TIL on 13 August 2024 Greg Kihn the two-hit wonder of The Breakup Song and Jeopardy (the song) fame died something i learned from Australian music video show Rage's in memoriam 2024 special its MTV if it still had music)
VMkm4 TIL that Nobuo Fujita, the Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during World War II returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret
8QG4 TIL the phrase “cut off your nose to spite your face” refers to a group of 9th century nuns who, to avoid being raped by Viking invaders, sliced off their noses and upper lips, thus exposing the teeth and gums. It kept them from being raped - but not from being burned alive.