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TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"

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8aPmb TIL about the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, the oldest undisputed dog fossil, which is over 14 thousand years old. A pathology of the remains indicates the dog was ill and would not have been able to live without intensive human care.
0drJN TIL that thing that you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch has a name other than that thing you toss into those rectangles while playing hopscotch. It's called a "lagger".
X00R8 TIL Adam Smith predicted the 13 colonies would defeat the British Empire & become a great empire itself
7r40L TIL that a short stretch of highway in Arizona counts off exit numbers, road signs and markers in kilometers due to a push in the 80's to convert the country's measurement system to metric.
awl9N TIL Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido was murdered by a knife-wielding drunk guy a few months after Lincoln’s assassination.