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TIL that a man spent 28 years in jail before a DNA test concluded that the hair found at the crime scene actually came from a dog.

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O19X TIL that yaks actually can’t survive at altitudes below roughly 10,000 ft., because of their sensitivity to temperatures above 15° C
Br0ed TIL the search for the Titanic was a cover story by the US Navy to recover two sunken nuclear submarines. However, the exploration finished with 12 days to spare in which they searched and found the Titanic.
R7mx4 TIL That movie ratings are decided by a board of up to 10 parents who are all anonymous and all live in Los Angeles.
oBKL8 TIL in 1903, a man named Ellis Hughes stole a 32,000 lb meteorite by secretly moving it from a neighbor's property onto his own. It took Hughes, his son and their horse 90 days to move it 3/4 of a mile. Once it arrived, he claimed he found it there and charged 25 cents admission to see it.
66Mm TIL: The original word for “bear” (the animal) has been lost. Superstitious people in medieval times thought that saying the ferocious animal’s name would summon it, so they used a euphemism that meant “the brown one” (“bear”) … The original word was never recorded, so it remains a mystery.