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TIL "The Dog Days of Summer" is a reference to the return of the star Sirius in the night sky

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9YPaX TIL that Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy
pYMaA TIL Napoleon Dynamite actor Efren Ramirez sent a cease and desist letter to his brother Carlos after finding out that he had been impersonating his character Pedro at parties and other events that Efren was too busy to attend, hitting him a 10 million dollar lawsuit had he continued.
16OR4 TIL the residents of Kalachi, Kazakhstan suffered from an affliction that caused them to fall asleep during daily activities for days or weeks on end. Officially, the explanation was carbon monoxide from a nearby abandoned uranium mine.
5Vr9 TIL of an American soldier who put up such a fight in captivity so well the Viet Cong executed him out of frustration. He was last heard singing “God Bless America”. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor
Rdwa TIL that HBO used some 160 lawyers to vet its film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief because of the notorious litigiousness of the Church of Scientology.