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TIL Clifford the Big Red Dog is the mascot of the Scholastic publishing company

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XE01P TIL dogs drink water by using the back of their tongue to scoop it up
VMmYm TIL a musician, Sivu, who did his entire music video in an MRI machine.
0d0av TIL there is a rare condition called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, where soft tissues in the body gradually turn into bone.
nDGb TIL Irrational numbers are called irrational because they aren’t ratio-nal (they can’t be described as a ratio or fraction)
7rZ8L TIL Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were frenemies, and one of the last nails in the coffin of their friendship was Wagner's allusion that Nietzsche's ill health was the result of "excessive masturbation".