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TIL about the Great Smog of London that lasted for 5 days and killed 10,000 people.

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Ankl TIL Dogs are so important to the well-being of homeless people that often they will go hungry to feed their dog first, and sacrifice to take care of their dog’s needs first.
Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”
LB5r TIL that 2014 was McDonald’s worst year in a decade
R7pr1 TIL that a British survey concluded that, in an emergency aircraft evacuation, up to 35% of people admit they would try to take some or all of their belongings with them, despite being instructed not to.
4kEE5 TIL Sobekneferu is the earliest confirmed female Egyptian pharaoh, ca. 1800-1700 BC