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TIL that there is no dog alive from the 20th century

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0d6NA TIL that reduction in life expectancy due to COVID-19 was 1.9 years for men and 1.6 years for women
pYZye TIL about John Birges Sr., who decided to recuperate his heavy gambling losses by planting a bomb in Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Casino to extort $10 million in 1980. The FBI ultimately failed to defuse the bomb “unlike any we’d seen before” and it exploded 34 hours later.
gWry TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, decided to run for President himself in 1844, on a platform of smaller government and God as lawgiver.
KYdj6 TIL in 2008 Universal Studios had a vault fire that destroyed around 50,000 digital film archive and between 118000 and 175000 audio master tapes. Artist affected include Duke Ellington, Tupac and the Banana Splits
wL1x8 TIL the fountain pen ink company Noodler's has an ink commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre - It's Blood Red