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Til the real dog, kabosu, the face behind the famous “doge” meme has been diagnosed with leukemia

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wLyN6 TIL that what I thought was a knife sharpener isn’t actually a knife sharpener at all. It is called a honing steel. It realigns a curled edge on the knife to straighten out your blade. And now I need to buy an actual knife sharpener.
ln1a TIL That in Japan a hologram-based synthesized animated female ‘singer’ is doing sold-out concerts
xVjd0 TIL one airport (SAV) in the US has 2 headstones embedded in the runway from an expansion where the next of kin refused to exhume the bodies of a small family cemetery
18mD TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, “That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly.”
8a6GP TIL, that Oct. 2, 1929 marked the last time a Work Union existed in the small town of Marion, NC as 6 members were shot in cold blood by the local sherrifs. Seven of whom were Anti-Union and deputized moments before the shooting. All were aquitted.