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TIL that dogs bark more than wolves because dogs have evolved into the equivalent of overgrown wolf puppies

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e0eJk TIL: In 1975 a 50 year old bricklayer died laughing whilst watching an episode of the TV show, The Goodies. His widow wrote to the cast of the show to thank them for making her husband's final moments so pleasant.
ZpwnQ TIL that Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi police officer who raided and arrested Anne Frank and her family, bought her diary to see if he was mentioned in the book.
d8kOj TIL the now-forgotten Booth Tarkington was once considered one of the greatest American novelists, mentioned in the same breath as Mark Twain
mxpBP TIL of Melodic Intonation Therapy. Often after a stroke or other types of aphasia, people are unable to speak. It has been found that the they often still have the ability to sing.
aKbJ TIL an Australian infant vanished in 1980 and her mother served prison time for the murder, and 32 years later it was declared she had actually been taken by a dingo.