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TIL that "Lucy's Law" is set to come into force, effectively banning the sale of puppies and kittens by third parties in the UK to stop puppy farms. Inspired by 'Lucy the Rescue Cavalier' a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel rescued from one such puppy farm-turned doggy activist

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QNMBa TIL: The famous Alaskan sled dog "Balto" was preserved in taxidermy and is on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio.
rmdM TIL Google has created and tested driverless cars on the streets of California, and over the course of 300,000 miles, they’ve only been in two accidents: One while someone was driving the car manually, and one in which the car was rear-ended at a stoplight.
Z8maB TIL That both India and China have a shortage of women. There is an extra 80 million men between them- due to a sex ratio of 120 men born for every 100 women. It’s estimated that this is due to parents terminating unwanted female pregnancies in order to have more sons.
PYAMJ TIL Dolph Lundgren aka Drago has a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney(‘82)and Royal Institute of Technology(‘80). He received a fulbright scholarship to MIT(‘83). He’s European Champion in Karate (‘81) and has an IQ of 160.
4kdLb TIL By the 13th century, thou became the informal “you” and ye became the formal “you,” making it similar to the French vous/tu distinction. The separation of the two “you”s remained until at least the 17th century