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TIL Australia is wider than the moon

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oBxa8 TIL that Sergeant Stubby, a stray dog found during military training in 1917, served with the 102nd Infantry Regiment in WWI, saving them repeatedly due to his ability to smell mustard gas at a distance. After the war, he became a celebrity, meeting three presidents and traveling around the country.
60MX TIL that homeless children in Miami in the 1990s developed an elaborate folk mythology that was spread by oral tradition.
d8mP7 TIL California Endangered Species Act doesn't include protection provisions for insects; instead of trying to add insects to the act, a group of environmentalists tried to get bees categorized as fish because the act's definition of fish includes animals without backbones.
ADLrx TIL, a coywolf (or woyote)is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes, eastern wolves and gray wolves.
awDrM TIL a Lenin statue in Ukraine was turned into Darth Vader because of decommunization laws.