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TIL The terrier who played Eddie on Frasier was given up by his original family because he couldn’t be house trained, chewed on everything, and constantly escaped and climbed trees.

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4Xygw TIL Ricky Gervais took on Grant Bovey ( UK soap opera Star) in a full contact boxing match.
egnD TIL In 1962, a group of scientists wanted to study the effects of LSD on elephants. They injected an elephant with 3,000 times the normal dose given to humans because they assumed elephants would be much less sensitive to LSD than humans. The elephant died in 100 minutes.
7AYx TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
p8Vee TIL that Franklin Roosevelt most likely had Guillane-Barre syndrome rather than polio
wo8mP TIL The World Factbook, published by the CIA, lists Australia’s coastline at 25,760 km (16,007 miles) and Japan’s at 29,751 km (18,486 miles). The World Factbook is wrong according to other measures which put Australia's coastline at 66,530 km (41,340 miles)