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TIL the reason dogs walk in circles before going to sleep is because this is how they would create a bed in long grass in the wild

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R7rg1 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England forgave and freed his killer, a young French boy whose father and brothers had been killed by Richard; the boy said he shot Richard with a crossbow as revenge, and Richard was so impressed with his bravery that he sent him off with 100 shillings
BgWMb TIL That the largest group of ethnically Japanese people outside of Japan is in Brazil.
16A6d TIL that the largest known prime number discovered as of June 2023 is 282,589,933 − 1, a number which contains 24,862,048 digits.
p8Gv8 TIL final battle scene in "The Last Jedi" was filmed on Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia. By some estimates more than 10 billion tons of salt cover the region today and it's home to more than 50 percent of the world's lithium reserves
9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.