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TIL that grey wolves and dogs share 99.9% of their DNA and can breed with each other.

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MEAK TIL John Lasseter (from Pixar) was fired in 1984 by Disney after pitching an all computer animated movie, it would cost Disney 7 billion to bring him back after buying Pixar in 2006
oRkeK TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Ep8X TIL When a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it will lose a feather on the other in order to keep its balance.