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TIL Pixar’s ‘Cars’ movie only made $462M in theaters but has since grossed more than $8 billion in merchandising.

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d8rXd TIL Basenji dogs are contenders for the title of oldest dog breed. From Africa, Basenjis are depicted in ancient Egyptian artifacts. Basenjis are “barkless,” fastidious and will groom themselves like cats.
OXm7 TIL Actress Candace Bergen’s father left $10,000 to his ventriloquist dummy and zero to her. His will said the dummy had “been my constant companion…from whom I have never been separated even for a day.” (The dummy had his own bedroom which was larger than Candace’s).
XEbMk TIL the artist Michelangelo drew illustrated versions of his shopping lists, so his illiterate servant could understand them without reading. One list from 1518 now tours alongside Michelangelo's artworks.
9Ygwm TIL Caucasia is a real place, not just a joke my friends and I make about white people.
VE5Z TIL that a dog called Capitan has slept and rarely left his owners grave since he died 6 years ago. And no one never showed him the grave, he found it himself and refused to leave when close family tried to take him home