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TIL when an anteater yawns they stick their tongue out

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xVkow TIL According to Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, the Greek King of Ithaca, had a dog named Argos. When Odysseus left for the war on Troy, Argos waited for 20 years for him to return, and died as soon as he saw his master had come back safe and sound.
WkxGd TIL Chong (from Cheech and Chong) shared a cell with the Wolf of Wallstreet Jordan Belfort when he went to jail for financing his son's bong company.
8e9v4 TIL: The Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) was the First Reich and eventually became Germany. This is what Hitler's Third Reich was attempting to recreate.
P1lGG TIL a peanut processing plant killed 9 people and hospitalized 700 others because of a filthy warehouse the government ignored for decades. This incident was so severe, new legislation was introduced making it a felony to neglect reporting positive salmonella tests within 24 hrs.
d8Bnr TIL: Paris had a pneumatic post system, where you could send your mail through tubes until 1984!