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TIL that some brands of dog food actually contain dead or euthanized pets received from animal shelters.

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oRexY TIL The term “Romance languages” has nothing to do with being languages of love, but rather because they all descend from the same parent language- Latin, the language of the Romans. The English term “romance” descends from the French word for a particular Latin dialect called Romanicus.
OGx96 TIL of Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck. She has a PHD in in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service in Higher Education. Her Dissertation was about uncommon black names.
O8ba TIL there is a 3,000 mile biking/hiking trail under construction that will connect Canada to the Florida Keys.
gMxDL TIL Einstein was candid to his wife Elsa about his extramarital affairs. In a letter to his wife, Einstein said women were chasing him, showering him with unwanted attention
MerxV TIL that while performing the first space walk in human history, Alexey Leonov’s spacesuit inflated so much he couldn’t get back inside his space capsule. He had to let air out of his suit while still in the vacuum of space and was barely able to fit back through the airlock.