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TIL every Shih Tzu alive today can be traced to one of 14 dogs — seven males and seven females — that were used to rebuild the breed when China underwent its Communist Revolution.

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MrRV TIL Jim Cummings, notably the voice of Winnie The Pooh and Tigger, voiced the Tasmanian Devil, and Razoul from Alladin, and many other voices has also done voice work in video games such as Skyrim, Fallout, and Baldur’s Gate.
d8GLK TIL that Cosmonauts used to bring a triple barreled pistol on space missions, mainly for the purpose of defending against Siberian wildlife. It fired both Shotgun and AK-74 ammunition.
awKx0 TIL every stegosaurus toy is probably female
xV0Mg TIL Iran's Supreme Leader issued an order calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, a British writer accused of blaspheming Islam. While he was not killed, the Japanese translator of the book was murdered and two other translators survived murder attempts
yVZBJ Today I learned that Ben Affleck's first television role was as C.T. Granville on the educational television program The Voyage of the Mimi which ran on PBS in 1984