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TIL about Saint Guinefort, a legendary 13th-century French greyhound that received local veneration as a folk saint.

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Z8gJY TIL on April 2nd, 2018, Yihong Peng, the older brother of popular LoL player, Doublelift, was arrested after he attacked their parents with a knife in front of the family home in California. His mother was pronounced dead at the scene and his father was heavily injured but later recovered.
5Qxk TIL Japan has a conviction rate of more than 99%
XEGBr TIL Robin Williams was asked to appear for the final night of Monty Python Live. He declined citing 'severe depression'. He committed suicide the following month. The DVD of the night was dedicated to Robin Williams upon release.
gpX9 TIL of Barnes Wallis, who in WWII not only invented the “bouncing bomb” which bounces on water to a target, but also the earthquake bomb which creates a 3.6 mag earthquake and was the largest non-nuclear bomb in the war.
wZmJ TIL USA has relatively poor median net wealth than rest of the developed world.