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TIL Dogs can tell dogs apart from other animals by sight alone - even wildly different looking kinds of dogs

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0w0YM TIL about Francis Marion, an American Patriot in SC who attacked British supply lines and harassed enemy communications then eluded capture through the swamps.
MNdV TIL That an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and beaten by 7 men until a pride of lions chased her attackers off. The lions then stayed and defended her until help could arrive.
xXJB TIL that during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mayor of the island of Zakynthos was ordered to make a list with the names of all Jews on the island. The list handed over to the Nazis contained two names: the mayor’s and the islands Bishop. All Zakynthos Jews survived the Holocaust.
4XakR TIL that when advice columnist Ann Landers asked in 1986 what the correct direction for toilet paper was, she received 15,000 letters - the most in her column's history
RyYQ TIL Pope Benedict XVI was once a member of Hitler Youth after his church group was forced to merge with it.