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TIL Homer Simpson is an honourary citizen of Winnipeg

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AAg4 TIL the popular dog name, Fido, which means “faithful one”, refers to a real dog in France during WWII that waited for his deceased master every day for 14 years (5,000 times) until his own death in 1958.
dDEVB TIL pianos have pedals
wL06E TIL on Michael Collins during Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, he was afraid of media focus if the mission failed , if he returned alone to Earth, & he was concerned about his mice companion not getting sick on quarantine back home.
lNpN TIL lime is poisonous to dogs
GApKG TIL about Project Venona, the US effort to decrypt KGB/GRU intercepts leading to some of the greatest intelligence breakthroughs during the cold war. Including exposing critical Soviet assets, (ie. the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, and Kim Philby)