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TIL of Basenji dogs, a dog breed that doesn't bark.

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J1mnv TIL in 2024, 23% of Anguilla's entire yearly revenue consisted of selling its national domain name ".ai". This is expected to increase to 25% in 2025.
oRPp7 TIL in the 1991 movie Hot Shots, Charlie Sheen's character gives a shoutout to Paula Abdul, who would soon after marry Charlie's real-life brother, Emilio Estevez.
gMWoL TIL that in 2002, China discovered 27 listening devices installed in a Boeing 767 which was going to be used as the Premier's transport. The Chinese allege that the devices were installed by the CIA while the aircraft was undergoing maintenance in Texas. The CIA and White House refused to comment.
JYVM8 TIL that a woman named 'Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado', a Peruvian citizen, is the youngest mother in history. At the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days was she able to give birth to a child with an undisclosed father... Or so they thought?
PY1de TIL Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so.