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TIL The highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M is a dog named Reveille. She has a student ID, a cell phone, & personal handler assigned to her 24/7, & she attends every class her handler has. If Reveille barks during class, the class is immediately dismissed.

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wle1 TIL that families in blood debt some times attempt to resolve the situation by leaving a baby (face down into a pillow) on their doorstep. If the grieving family turn the baby over, they accept it into their home and the 2 families are related. If they leave the baby to die, the feud intensifies.
P1WnL TIL actor Richard Harris was offered the role of English Bob in Unforgiven by a phone call from Clint Eastwood while watching Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter. Richard thought it was a prank at first.
8eMoV TIL Tic Tac were first introduced in 1969, under the name "Refreshing Mints". In 1970, the name was changed to Tic Tac, after the distinctive clicking sound made by the pack being opened and closed.
69A87 TIL if you plug a USB 3.0 cable in too slowly, it gets recognized as a USB 2.0 connection
8aLK TIL that Japanese people can digest seaweed while for the rest of us it passes right through. (They have an unique symbiosis with a bacteria)