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TIL Lassie, Old Yeller, Toto, Benji and more famous movie dogs were all trained by the same family.

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mwmY TIL Scientists recovered soft tissue and blood vessels from a T. rex dinosaur
dDvmQ TIL that in 1885 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used 300,000 pounds of explosives to annihilate Flood Rock island in New York City's East River as part of clearing Hell Gate for safer navigation. It's been described as "the largest planned explosion before testing began for the atomic bomb".
Vn9D TIL the U.S.A. is the only country in the world where most boys are circumcised for nonreligious reasons.
5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
ep6xk TIL diabolical ironclad beetle - this beetle has one of the strongest exoskeletons of any insect, allowing it to withstand forces up to 39,000 times its body weight!