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PYlYO TIL an 18-month old golden retriever saved her owner from being attacked by a cougar. The dog named Angel threw herself between her owner, 11-year-old Austin Forman, and the cougar. Angel and the cougar fought, the cougar winning until an officer was called and shot it. Angel survived and recovered.
R7RLj TIL The voice of phone numbers, voicemail, etc. is not a computer but the recorded voice of an actual lady named Joan Kenley
Ayln TIL King Mithradates of Pontus had a flock of ducks who consumed poisonous plants and didn’t die (thus making them useful for creating antidotes); however their blood, meat, and eggs could kill you if you ingested them
NXGnJ TIL about that in 1995 the six-year-old boy Gedhun Choekii Niima is recognized as the Panchen Lama, the second most important Buddhist leader. The boy then disappeared forever and a new candidate was appointed under still unexplained and suspicious circumstances.
rRP5M TIL that in 1900, during the Scofield mine explosion, a guy named John Wilson was thrown at least 820 feet into the air. He survived