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TIL that the oldest dog ever verified was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived for 29 years & 5 months

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Pw7e TIL that a Colombian program called kangaroo care, where prematurely born babies are kept in constant skin-to-skin contact with parents, has shown success over hospital incubators in reducing infant mortality.
leJ5 TIL the Ancient Babylonians took their beer so seriously, if a brewer was found to be watering down his beer, he’d either be drowned in the barrel or forced to keep drinking it till he died
4kRDJ TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners
VM9jQ TIL Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female super-centenarian and second validated human to live to 110 years old (1792-1903).
LQXEP TIL that the first known species of millipede that actually has at least 1,000 legs was only discovered in 2020. Prior to that, the record-holder was a species with only about 750 legs.