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TIL dogs know when you smile at them

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x67p1 TIL that slavery was still legal in the British Empire as late as 1964 (in the Federation of South Arabia, previously the Aden Colony, now part of Yemen)
6E8Gm TIL The reason Christmas is sometimes abbreviated to "X-mas" is because the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Χριστός), which became Christ in English. The suffix -mas is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass.
dOX7 TIL If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, Prices Would Go Up only 1.4%. That means your Xbox one would only be about $5 extra and only about $0.50 to $1.00 extra for your games
78epO Today I learned that Super Bowl I was broadcast on both NBC and CBS and that the video tapes of the game were subsequently wiped out by both networks to save costs.
Ypl5W TIL paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope donated his skull to science as a challenge to his archrival Othniel Charles Marsh, hoping that his brain would be measured to be bigger. Marsh did not accept the challenge.