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TIL Missy, a 100lb injured dog abandoned by her owner on Mount Bierstadt in Clear Creek County as a storm closed in, found by hikers a few days later who treated her but couldn't rescue her, they posted her location on a climbers forum and an epic rescue journey began to rescue a dog from a mountain

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4dWo TIL Queen Elizabeth does not hold a passport. Since all British passports are issued in the queen’s name, she herself doesn’t need one. She just has to say that she is the queen.
P1J0w TIL that after South Korea built a 323 ft (98 m) flagpole with a 300 lb (140 kg) flag near the DMZ, North Korea erected an even taller 525 ft (160 m) flagpole with a 600 lb (270 kg) flag on their side of the border.
WkwNL TIL about Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a Brazilian serial killer who killed about 100 people and was jailed for 30+ years. Because of Brazilian laws, he is currently free and is a popular YouTuber.
Z8QBv TIL about Mariano Martinez. A man who in 1971 modified an ice cream machine to create the first frozen margarita machine. He did this to meet demand for a popular margarita recipe he was serving at the time. You can find his invention on display at the Smithsonian Museum for American history.
YvWB TIL that a 14 year old boy broke into Queen Victoria’s Buckingham Palace while disguised as a chimney sweep then ran off with her underwear.