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TIL of Basenji dogs, a dog breed that doesn't bark.
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TIL that some bacteria can be visible to the naked eye! Thiomargarita namibiensis can grow up to 3/4 of a millimeter (750 μm) due to a cavity that is used to store, and later convert, nitrate.
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TIL: Howard Stern mocked Selena's murder and burial, poked fun at her mourners, criticized her music and said that Spanish people had the worse taste in music. Stern then played Selena's songs with gunshots in the background on his show.
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TIL that the most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier. She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII.
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TIL children develop stronger bonds and derive more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their siblings, more so if the pets are dogs.
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TIL that in 1966 French President Charles de Gaulle demanded that all American military personnel leave France. American President Lyndon Johnson asked if that order applied to American soldiers in French cemeteries.