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TIL: That Golden Retrievers are the closest descendants of the now extinct Russian Tracker, a breed reportedly so intelligent it kept flocks of sheep alive for months, with no human help.

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N7v7N TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.
GAWX7 TIL about D-VHS or Digital VHS, a 50 GB VHS cassette tape capable of recording high-definition video. Released in 1998 in an attempt to save the VHS format, D-VHS was more bulky and expensive than DVDs and hard disks and failed to make headway into the video market.
6EDLY TIL that a cast member on a 1980s Christian TV show called "Joy Junction" was arrested in 2013 on charges after planning to kill and eat children. The show has since been nearly scrubbed out of existence with only 1 episode surviving on Youtube.
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