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TIL that there is a city in GA called Santa Claus with Christmas-themed street names

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P1j5V TIL that It’s proven dogs can understand and recognize up to 250 words and gestures, making them one of the most skilled species studied in these tasks. It has been suggested that, with training, some may even recognize and respond to more than 1,000 different words!
VL50 TIL that the African countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda are merging to form the East African Federation, a new sovereign state.
Wma4 TIL opossums have the most nipples of any animal.
ownL TIL India’s Dabbawalas deliver 200,000 meals a day, making one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. FedEx and Harvard are studying their methods.
BWwd TIL that “Dr.” Martin Luther King’s Ph.D thesis was plagiarized, and many of his speeches were “borrowed”.