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TIL that Mark Calaway aka The Undertaker established The Zeus Compton Calaway Save the Animals fund to help pay for lifesaving treatments for large-breed dogs.

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Ev8P TIL that in a 2011 experiment where rats were presented with chocolate chips and a caged rat, test subjects would first free the caged rat, then share the food.
8eQ4 TIL that in 2010 security researchers were invited to try to tamper with an Internet voting pilot. Within 36 hours they had made the website play the Michigan fight song and changed all the votes to write-ins for various fictional robots and computers.
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