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TIL that when puppies play, the boys always let the girls win.

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JYdjQ TIL that medieval forests near inhabited areas were actually more managed then most forests today and functioned more like semi-wild gardens.
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mxBlp TIL that Britain's worst nuclear accident, would have been much worse, were it not for Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. Whom insisted on installing filters onto the exhaust shaft of the Windscale Nuclear Power Plant. When the accident happened the radioactive dust was reduced by 95%.
4E1N TIL that inserting swear words into other words (e.g. “abso-fucking-lutely”) is referred to as expletive infixiation.
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