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TIL the search and rescue dogs of 9/11 became depressed as fewer and fewer live bodies were being found. To help combat this, human rescue workers occasionally hid in the rubble to be found and reward the dogs.

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5YpLB TIL that there is a global Sand crisis and that there is an actual Sand mafia.
ZXjo TIL there is a man who, due to auto-brewery syndrome, will get drunk from eating bread
M7GGK TIL when the artists arrived to record "We Are the World," Stevie Wonder told them that if the song wasn't finished in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive them home.
Brajb TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
EgKlX TIL that Lady Gaga's manager, without Gaga's input, denied Weird Al approval to release a parody of one of her songs on his 2011 album. After Weird Al released the song for free on YouTube, Lady Gaga heard the parody for the first time and allowed Weird Al to release it with the album.