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TIL that the dog breed 'shih tzu' were bred for royalty in ancient China and where pets for many emperors.

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Yp7wZ TIL that The actor Richard Attenborough, old guy naturalist from Jurassic Park, is the real life brother to David Attenborough, old guy naturalist from the BBC.
PYneV TIL The ratio of people using email for fun versus those using it for work has flipped since the 1990s. Many people nowadays dread email "because it is a conduit for unwanted advertising, a wide range of spam, and flat out attempts to scam or ‘phish’ us”
78Q77 TIL Crash test dummies cost $1million
KO4a9 TIL about Estevanico, or Mustafa Azemmouri, an enslaved Muslim of Moroccan origin who became the first African to explore North America when, following a shipwreck off Galveston Island, he walked from Texas to Sinaloa in the 1530s
v1694 TIL within hours of its release in 1993 the video game DOOM was banned from numerous university networks as a rush of players overwhelmed their systems with deathmatches