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TIL: The cliched and once popular dog name "Fido" is Latin for "Faithful" and made popular by Abraham Lincoln who is likely the first person to use that name on a dog.

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LrW9 TIL The little pink part in the inside corner of your eye is left over from when we had an inner eyelid.
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d8xlr TIL About the 19th century female sculptor Camille Claudel. Regarded as a genius in her time, she was hated by her mother and her brother for her artistic lifestyle. They had her committed to different asylums for the last 30 years of her life, and took all her money. She was buried with the poor.