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TIL of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival that takes place in the Chinese city Yulin during the summer solstice, resulting in the slaughter of thousands of dogs. Despite a decreased interest and governmental changes that signal a lack of support for the festival, the Yulin Dog Meat Festival continues.

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rNrkM TIL that the sample for Jay-Z’s song for “Hard Knock Life” was only cleared after Jay-Z wrote a letter to Annie’s composer claiming that seeing the musical on Broadway as a child changed his life. Charles Strouse, the musical’s composer, gave Jay-Z permission despite the entire story being made up.
KnQB TIL that there’s a prestigious college to train nannies for the rich and famous. Norland College is “nearly impossible” to get into, and the current nanny for Prince George and Princess Charlotte was trained there.
VB5ak TIL a study followed 14 contestants from reality series The Biggest Loser for six years after they left the show & found that losing a large amt of weight in just a few weeks was harmful to their metabolism. It slowed down during the loss & never recovered; the greater the loss the slower it became.
b9koN TIL that to avoid the censure of his father, a railroad worker who disapproved of poets, the teenage writer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto wrote and published poetry under a pseudonym: Pablo Neruda. He would later legally adopt the name and go on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Z8KRo TIL on four separate occasions, British retailer B&Q has had to recall sonic mole repellers in its Northern Ireland stores after being informed there are no moles in Ireland.