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TIL about London’s Forty Elephants, an all-female gang of shoplifters

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rNo1 TIL that 99% of all puppies sold at pet stores come from puppy mills.
R5Z97 TIL about plank roads. Existing as early as 4000BC they were used to allow foot, animal, and cart/wagon traffic across soft or unstable terrain.
7kxP TIL for those of you that buy glasses online, yet your optometrist refuses to give you your PD (Pupilary Distance), there is a federal law that says that they must give that information to you
ePRb TIL that the Inuit saved the bladder of the animals they killed because they believed the soul lived inside. They returned the bladder to the ocean so that the animal could get a new body and hopefully allow itself to be hunted again.
GADP7 TIL that a German dictionary producer hold an annual competition for best "Youth word" of the year (examples in comments)