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TIL Dogs sleep on their backs when the feel extremely safe and comfortable.

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65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
x6raB TIL that "butt load" is an actual unit of measurement, equivalent to 126 gallons.
wLP6M TIL: Grand Theft Auto V broke industry sales records and became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning $800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.
NXogQ TIL Eyren was the most common word for what we call eggs today, and it only changed because William Caxton used a printing press to flood England with publications calling them eggs.
wPeM TIL that 50 years ago, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset w/ their government that they elected a female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest. She was the top vote getter w/ over 100,000 votes.