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TIL that life under chronic hypoxia has multiple advantages for humans including an overall higher lifespan.

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DQ7LD TIL about Red Dog. From 1971 - 1979, an Australian Cattle dog nicknamed "Red Dog" hitched rides all over the Western Australian Outback from truckers and bus drivers. He was even given a bank account at one point.
wngE TIL that the real Top Gun school gives a $5 fine to anyone in the staff that quotes the movie
KM56 TIL Acadiens expelled from eastern Canada mostly settled around the state of Louisiana around 1757. Their French pronounciations gradually slackened until ‘Acadien’ came to be pronounced 'A Cajun’.
LBpZ TIL a homeless man was found decapitated with a severed chicken head shoved in his neck. An occult detective predicted that the Santeria cult took his head to make a brain stew, and that they would return the head in 42 days. She was taken off the case, and the head showed up 42 days later.
yQ8Zw TIL that when the destroyers HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian were both heavily damaged during WWI, the Royal Navy welded the best halves together to create the "Frankenship" HMS Zubian.