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Til that military working dogs used by the US in Vietnam were either left behind or euthanized, mostly the latter.

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Lk6jv TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
DLRP TIL that Leslie Nielsen has a fart joke on his tombstone.
4xkR TIL in the 1930s, an Irish man named Michael Malloy survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Terpentine, Rat Poison, being left in -14 Degree Weather and getting hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”.
GYJEj TIL a Scottish teen's mother had been nagging him for weeks to clean his bedroom. When Ryan Kitching finally cleaned his room, he found 12 old lottery tickets in a drawer; one of them was a winner for £52,981.
4XL76 TIL the waterbed was invented in 1833 by a Scottish Physician. He intentionally did not patent it so that anyone could design their own variation of the waterbed and it could help as many people as it could who were suffering from bed sores.