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TIL of Roselle, a guide dog that helped her owner down 78 flights of stairs during the 9/11 attacks on the WTC.

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woOaJ TIL there is a whale that roams alone and sings at a frequency no other whale can understand - dubbed 52 Hertz, he is the loneliest whale in the world
E1B87 TIL of 2015 Book [Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War] by American Susan Southard. It recounts the lifelong experience of five teenage hibakusha (survivors ) after the bombing of Nagasaki in WWII
d89rr TIL there was a “gay Hooters” restaurant in Dallas, Texas called Tallywackers that failed within a year of opening
a8dOZ TIL that Hebrew, Aramaic, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and other languages all have almost same word for "peace [be unto you]" as a standard greeting (generally with a raised hand, to show peace). (E.G. Shalom - Shelam 'alakh - Salam-alaykum - Salam)
b9OON TIL Ants are skilled farmers. Many species of ants purposely grow an edible fungus inside the nest that the ants feed upon, to ensure that the nest isn't wiped out by starvation when food is scarce.