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TIL phrases like "needs washed" is acceptable grammar across a large part of the US.

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v1yXR TIL a pitbull mix named Dosha, following being hit by a car, was shot in the head by a police officer in order to stop the dog’s suffering. At an animal control center, her body was put in a freezer. Two hours later, she was found alive. Dosha was taken into surgery, and survived the ordeal.
4kD4R TIL Hugo Junkers, the founder of Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works that manufactured many of Germany's WWII bombers, opposed German re-armament. The Nazis seized his patents and company, threatened him with treason, and placed him under house arrest.
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d77 TIL a lawyer used his will to found a library into which no woman would be allowed, nor would the works of any women enter.