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TIL of Kukur Tihar, a day of a Nepalese festival where everybody is nice to dogs and thanks them for being friends with us

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nAD7 TIL in 1995, McDonald’s asked Greenpeace activists to stop criticizing their company publicly and instead do it only in private with their friends. Activists said they’d agree if McDonald’s stopped advertising its products and instead only recommended their restaurants privately to friends.
164jd TIL that the last woolly mammoths survived on isolated Wrangel Island off Siberia until approximately 2000 BC, long after their mainland extinction around 10,000 years ago. This means they coexisted in time with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (about 2560 BC).
Z8wXp TIL ‘Band of Brothers’ strived for historical accuracy to such an extent that multiple WWII veterans were flown in from all over the world to advise on the weaponry, battle tactics, and combat situations. As a final check, the veterans screened previews of each episode prior to their release.
5YAr9 TIL In 1978, two Monty Python comedians shot a scene dressed up as John Lennon and Paul McCartney and then tourists, thinking they were the Beatles, asked for their autographs, while the actual George Harrison, who they didn’t recognize, stood nearby laughing his ass off.
wLQk1 TIL that a cat licking somebody may indicate that the cat thinks that the person is its responsibility and part of its family and so it treats the person the way its mother treated it. It thinks the person is his pet, rather than the other way round.