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TIL: nothing starts with n and ends with g.

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8egM4 TIL about “Riot Dogs,” stray dogs that have become symbols of resistance by accompanying protesters during demonstrations, notably in Greece and Chile, and more recently observed in Georgia.
QBMp TIL the first picture ever taken from space was taken fom a Nazi Rocket
EgWAo TIL in Apartheid South Africa, being black or white was sometimes determined by shoving a pencil into a person's hair and checking to see if it fell out when shaking their head, or by pinching them to see what language they would say "ouch" in
AANd TIL there is a custom in Naples called Caffè Sospeso where someone who had experienced good luck would order a sospeso, paying the price of two coffees but receiving and consuming only one. A poor person enquiring later whether there was a sospeso available would then be served a coffee for free.
gKmb TIL Floyd Mayweather accused Manny Pacquiao of wanting to fight him due to money problems. Pacquiao responded by challenging him to donate ALL their proceeds from their fight (estimated to bring in around $400,000,000) to charities around the world. Mayweather said no.