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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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x6byk TIL that Apollo 8 astronauts Jim Lovell and William Anders are the earliest living recipients of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" award, having been selected by the magazine for its 1968 issue
D1jvV TIL of Katya the Bear who was a brown bear native to Kazakhstan who was imprisoned in 2004 after being found guilty of mauling two people. Katya was held in an adult prison. The bear was released from imprisonment and allowed to congregate with other bears after serving a fifteen-year sentence.
5Yv98 TIL Fabio Lanzoni once killed a goose with his face while riding a roller coaster
wMQW TIL The poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today, and has had a massive impact on the history of Christmas gift giving
ZpjGD TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.