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TIL No Kill Shelters aren’t actually no kill. They save 90% of their animals to be considered no kill.

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rNanW TIL about Eugène François Vidocq, a deserter and career criminal who became a police informant and, under Napoléon I's First French Empire, the founder of the Sûreté Nationale, hiring other criminals
E1YkV TIL That a Tennessee town hung/executed Mary the Elephant from a crane because she killed her handler that was mistreating her. Some initially wanted to pull her apart while still alive using two trains.
M677 TIL that John Harington, inventor of the toilet, is an ancestor of Kit Harington (Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones).
grOnA TIL the F150 is 79.9 inches wide because trucks over 80 inches need commercial truck identification lights. These lights can be seen on the Ford Raptor front grill for example. (Raptor is +86 inches wide)
wLn7M TIL Whales will defecate to defend themselves, creating a "poopnado" by evacuating for several minutes and bobbing up and down and splashing its tail around in the waste