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TIL Male puppies purposely let female puppies win while playing

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9YavD TIL that all the photos of ikea products you find in their catalogs are not even real photos. They create all the furniture in a 3D program and place them in different scenes (like a kitchen). Then they render it so realistically that you can't distinguish it from a real photo. Since 2004!
D1r5r TIL of "Private SNAFU" - an animated training series developed by Frank Capra and written by Dr. Seuss for the US military during WW2. Walt Disney was supposed to develop the cartoons and wanted exclusive ownership to the "SNAFU" character, but Warner Bros. outbid him and secured the rights instead.
D1xwe TIL about the American town 'Merrymount', founded 1624. Named from slang at the time for 'illicit' forms of sex - the town rejected Puritan values welcoming non-Heterosexuals, freeing indentured servants and intermarrying Native Americans. Five years later it was invaded and razed to the ground.
M7PB7 TIL Due to signing their merchandise deal late, Kenner sold the first four Star Wars figures in a empty box for Christmas 1977, it had a mail in rebate so you would receive your four figures by February 1978.
MlBa TIL that an ice hockey team composed entirely of Icelandic players that were rejected by other teams because of their ethnicity went on to win Canada’s first ever Olympic gold medal in ice hockey