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TIL that people feel more sympathy for dogs than they do for people.

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PrdG TIL of Ming the Clam that, when discovered, it was the oldest living animal ever discovered…until the Scientists observing the clam killed it.
6E7RX TIL that the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire has been a protected forest since 1066, when the Normans reserved it for royal hunting.
GYmG5 TIL, on the day of bombing on Hiroshima, within the first three seconds 1000s of people were incinerated as the temperature at the burst-point reached 60 million degrees centigrade- 10000 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
XEKBR TIL After an Australian radio host used his influence to demand advertisements be shown on the Sydney Opera House, a comedy group projected "Advertise Here" on the landmark followed by the radio host's home phone number, causing him to apologize on air after he was flooded with calls
xV7ag TIL People who eat cheese and butter daily live LONGER than those who don't. Scientists came to this conclusion after analyzing the diets of more than 130,000 people in almost two dozen countries.