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TIL that braille is imprinted on on beer cans sold in Japan. This is to ensure that blind people won't confuse a can of beer with a soft drink.

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WklnN TIL that when dogs and cats are kept with petsitters for a long duration, they will sometimes change their colors, patterns, and behaviors. This is totally normal and in no way suggests anything happened to your original dog, Mike.
Y7e7r TIL both Scarface movies (1983 & 1932) were based on a book by Armitage Trail, who was 28 years old and died suddenly of a heart attack just nine months after the novel was published.
x91o TIL in WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
A9Dw TIL while Teddy Roosevelt was police commissioner in NY, he ordered about forty Jewish policemen to protect a German anti-Semitic preacher, with the goal to make him ridiculous.
b6m80 TIL that Stephen Baldwin has a tattoo of the initials "HM" for Hannah Montana after making a pact with Miley Cyrus that he would be allowed to cameo on the show if he had the initials tattooed on him. He was never given the opportunity to be on the show and has said he regrets getting the tattoo.