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TIL the inventor of the labradoodle deeply regrets his actions.

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5Vwkr TIL Navajo is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and is most widely spoken north of the Mexico–United States border, with almost 170,000 Americans speaking Navajo at home as of 2011.
XERaD TIL Mongolians in the Imperial Era were lactose intolerant, and despite being nomadic with large herds of sheep, goats and sometimes camels, rarely drank milk. When water was in short supply, they commonly used to drink horse's blood by draining it from the horse's neck without killing it.
QNPvM TIL Ralph Lazo was the only non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp. He was 17 years old and spent two years in internment.
VM4jp TIL The 1933 worlds fair began by focusing the light from only the 37 light year distant star Arcturus onto photoelectric cells using telescopes. The resulting current switched on the floodlights at the exposition grounds.
rRNnd TIL about Pascal Poolaw, Sr., a Kiowa Indian soldier who won a silver star in WWII, two silver stars in Korea, and one in Vietnam. He also won five bronze stars and three purple hearts.