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TIL in the UK and Ireland, one can sign up for an inexpensive, mutually beneficial arrangement for owners who need minders for their dogs, and dogless folk, who love dogs but prefer to love them in a part-time sort of way.

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R7WOj TIL: When the Nazis and the Vichy government began arresting and deporting the Jews, Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imam of Grand Mosque de Paris made it a sanctuary for endangered Jews. By offering them shelter; and giving them fake identity certificates, to prove they were Muslims, not Jews.
a84N TIL when a library cat named Muffin was “evicted” in Putnam Valley, NY, 2 members of the community removed the library from their wills and the library lost $80,000 in future revenue
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