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TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s graveside. To the extent that he went for 7 days without food. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him and bring him food and water.

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xVGg0 TIL the martial arts style portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 2010 movie "The Book of Eli" is called Kali and is the national martial arts form of the Philippines. It teaches to focus on and react to angles of attack rather than particular strikes/attacks.
E1JEX TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.
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Oow06 TIL about the "Iron Harvest". This is an annual event where people help unearth unexploded bombs from European conflicts, specifically WW1. Since 1946, over 600 civilians and ordnance collectors have died from these explosives.