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

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90N6 TIL The term “grandfather clause” comes from the Jim Crow era. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and quizzes were designed to keep blacks from voting. But these standards barred poor whites from voting as well. The solution was to pass laws that allowed descendants of past voters to be “grandfathered in”.
06GN TIL Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin only met one time, in which Joplin ended up smashing a bottle of whiskey on Morrison’s head after growing angry over his suggestive behavior toward her. Morrison was only more attracted to Joplin afterward and pursued her for weeks.
8a5YZ TIL the Hang ( a pan like instrument) was created in Switzerland and not a caribbean country.
M7OWB TIL Filipino movie star Corazon Noble was bayoneted 9 times by WWII Japanese soldier while trying to protect her 10 mo baby, who died after being sliced open 3 times, then helped testify in the postwar crime trials, and is still alive today.
DQArP TIL that taro leaves are poisonous when eaten raw