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TIL street dogs in Moscow have learned how to navigate the subways.

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9Y0j7 TIL the reason a software wizard is called wizard, is because there used to be software experts nicknamed wizards that helped users to go trough tasks, and the name stuck when the wizards became part of the softwares themselves
Emlp TIL that when Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats for a charity auction benefitting 10-year old Erik Ortiz Cruz, who had a brain disorder that can cause 30 seizures a day, he instead paid the whole $83K for his surgery.
eGE5 TIL that the Chinese city of Guangzhou had no subway whatsoever 20 years ago. Today, its subway system has 186 stations and is 191 miles/307 km long. It is today the world’s fourth busiest metro system, beating New York’s, London’s, Moscow’s and Paris’ in terms of ridership.
WklpA TIL: Some swiss cheese lacks holes because the milk used to make it is too clean. A Swiss agricultural institute discovered that tiny pieces of hay dust are responsible for the holes.
BrLkd TIL A denarius is an ancient Roman coin made of silver and a common day's pay for unskilled labor was equal to one denarius. Over its approximate 400 years of being issued, the denarius lost much of his purchasing power due to inflation