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TIL languages have different conversational representation for barking dogs.

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N7nY6 TIL Peter Porco, after being hit in the head 16 times with an axe, woke up with his alarm and shaved, prepared breakfast, retrieved the newspaper and made his lunch all before succumbing to his injuries.
N7jyN TIL that 30% of all residents in the country of Monaco are millionaires.
4X8E5 TIL Wilt Chamberlain was able to dunk a basketball from the free-throw line without a running start. Because of this, he routinely dunked his free throws and the NCAA and NBA eventually decided to institute rules to prevent this.
GAVmE TIL there is a Spanish version of the TV show “Cheers”
b9N TIL that, as a way to detect nighttime predators, many species of animals (ducks, dolphins, whales, iguanas) will sleep with one eye open. One hemisphere of their brain is asleep while the other one is awake.