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Today I learned that the live mascot of the Washington Huksies is in fact, not a husky. It's an Alaskan Malamute.

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4Xgp5 Over 50 spacecraft (19 landers and 6 rovers have visited the lunar surface) have successfully launched from Earth to fly past, orbit, impact and land on the Moon.
5X1n TIL one of Charles Darwin’s daughters was so offended by a particularly phallic mushroom that she would pick and then burn them to protect ‘the morals of the maids’
6dPJ TIL that naked mole rats are immune to cancer because of a cell defense mechanism, that stops a cell from replicating.
5Voy8 TIL Alaska pays a yearly dividend to full-time residents, amounting most recently to $1,312 in 2023 and $3,284 in 2022.
7BgP TIL that in 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald and Goofy under threat of legal action