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TIL Mexico just opened its first public veterinary hospital where they treat for free an average of 250 animals a day.

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lolyK TIL Karl Marx once participated in a London pub crawl. After 18 pubs he and his friends started throwing rocks at street lamps - at which point he was chased by 4 policemen who he managed to outrun.
6R97 TIL Rene Rancourt, who has been singing both the American and Canadian National Anthem at Boston Bruins games for over 35 years, has never had a contract with the Bruins. According to him, “…I’ve always just shown up and I’ve become associated with the Bruins.”
7816X TIL In 1945 the only successful international sub to sub rescue mission was carried out by the USS Cod; who evacuated the crew of the Dutch sub O-19, who were stranded on a reef. To commemorate this a symbol was added to Cod's battle flag: the name O-19 under a martini glass.
lo4g5 TIL Winston Churchill demanded his coffin to be transported through the London Waterloo Station after his death, as he wanted future invitee, French president de Gaulle walk bare-headed under the Waterloo’s archway that marked Britain's victory over France in the Battle of Waterloo
X0Q9Q TIL the Australian Tim Tam chocolate biscuit, inspired by Britain’s Penguin biscuit and created by food technologist Ian Norris, was named after “Tim Tam” , the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby when Ross Arnott attended the race and first appeared on supermarket shelves in 1964