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TIL there’s a world surfing championship for dogs

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x6lLB TIL A 90-minute scary movie can burn up to 113 calories, which is the same as a 30-minute walk
v1jaj TIL - that during WW1, the British created a campaign to shame men into enlisting. Women would hand out White Feathers to men not in uniform and berate them as cowards. The it was so successful that the government had to create badges for men in critical occupations so they would not be harassed.
780gZ TIL in 2011 a drunken moose in Sweden became stuck in an apple tree while attempting to eat more fermented apples. Responding firefighters managed to bend the tree down far enough for the moose to slide off the branches and be set free.
LkoOZ TIL of Jennifer Asbenson, a woman who survived an encounter with a serial killer, Andrew Urdiales. He assaulted her, bound her, and put her into the trunk of his car. She broke free and ran away. He chased her with her a machete, but she signalled a passing truck and escaped. Urdiales had 8 victims.
9wYb7 TIL that William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago, invented the community college.