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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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MexWm TIL Jules Winfield, that character Samuel L. Jackson played in "Pulp Fictions," was never supposed to have jheri curls. That wig was brought to the set by mistake. Instead, Jules was supposed to have an afro.
0rM TIL that Australia had an “emu war” in which machine guns and artillery was used.
dDeeE TIL that while mature soybeans are normally too bitter and tough to eat without being processed/fermented into different soy products. Immature soybeans are much more tender and palatable, and you've might not realize you've actually eaten them before- they are also known as Edamame!
E16jP TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.
ryOM TIL there exist humans with four cones in their eyes (tetrachromats) that can perceive color differences the rest of us cannot. Because it is based on a gene variation of the X chromosome, it is believed that only women can be tetrachromats.