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TIL there is a hero in the DC Universe known as Dogwelder, whose superpower is welding dogs to people.

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XEVJQ TIL there are still people that speak Aramaic, or the language actually spoken by Jesus Christ, about 500,000 speakers are left worldwide.
9YQD7 TIL that in the 2000 Paralympics, 10 out of 12 players in Spain's ID Basketball team were non-disabled, who pretended to have intellectual disabilities. The scandal was exposed after the Paralympics, when one of the players was revealed to be an investigative journalist.
ADe4B TIL that George Orwell suffered damage to his vocal cords after he was shot by a sniper whilst fighting during the Spanish Civil War in 1937
W7wkd TIL about Miki Matsubara, a Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer who destroyed all her sheet music and albums when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. She told those around her, "Please live your life without regrets."
x68bB TIL about the Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its guests include George Washington, Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryan. FDR held speeches from the front porch