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TIL Dogs are the most popular pets in the US, and 44.6% of American households have dogs.

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g9VD TIL: Shakespeare is the only author with his own Dewey decimal number; it’s 822.33.
vP18B TIL Mr. Perfect, Curt Hennig saved Baseball Hall of Famer, Wade Boggs from bleeding to death while on a hunting trip
wop7M TIL Port Hedland, a tiny little town in North Western Australia, is home to the 2nd largest bulk export port in the world and the #1 highest tonnage port in Australia with annual throughput of over 500 million tonnes of mostly iron ore headed to China.
EgVW7 TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect, "a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them". The opposite is also true, people come to dislike others to whom they have done wrong
RWDl TIL Kuman Thong (golden young boy), is a dry roasted still-born baby covered in gold leaf and worshipped as an amulet in ancient Thailand. It is illegal now, but sometimes people still make them.