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TIL that the world's oldest dog lived to the age of 29 years and 5 months

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myKo TIL that Joe Bell, the father of a son that committed suicide from gay bullying, planned to walk across the entire continental United States within 2 years to spread awareness over bullying and its effects, but was killed after 6 months by getting hit by a semi-truck.
YpLNv TIL that when Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
Br1Ab TIL that 237 black sharecroppers in Arkansas were murdered by a mob of white WW1 vets in 1919 because they tried to unionize.
wLGK7 TIL that there is a massive complex of termite mounds in Brazil that are 4,000 years old and about the size of Britain
nV7b TIL in 2007 the Pope (Benedict XVI) called creationism “absurd” because “there is much scientific proof in favor of evolution”