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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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OoRyL TIL American literary icon Jack Kerouac grew up speaking French, until he was six. He also played football at Columbia.
x6erw TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
mxgyo TIL about Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth, who went from being Governor of Moscow under Tsar Alexander III, to an Orthodox nun, trading her riches away for a tiny monastery.
QNjYk TIL that Germany plotted to kill Winston Churchill with a bar of exploding chocolate during WW2
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