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TIL studies done on animal shelters around holidays found no spikes in returned or abandoned puppies after the holidays. The ASPCA now call this a "myth" and actively encourages people to adopt shelter animals as Christmas gifts

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PY0nV TIL of Roberto P. Hernandez who was jailed for a robbery he did not commit in 1985. The authorities confused him with another man because the two had the same name, birthday, weight, height, brown hair and eyes, and tattoos on their left arms. Only their SSNs differed, and that was only by 1 digit!
YpdWd TIL of the National Defence Corps Incident. When a South Korean force of 406,000 suffered 300,000 casualties from starvation, disease and mass desertion due to High ranking officers embezzling funds earmarked for the purchase of food supplies.
b90pp TIL London’s smallest statue ‘Two Mice Eating Cheese’ commemorates the death of two workmen who, in 1862, fell from scaffolding whilst arguing over a missing sandwich. It was actually stolen by mice
wo807 TIL that Stitch’s Great Escape! at Disney World was originally a notoriously scary attraction called ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, which was in turn originally going to be an Alien movie ride with an animatronic Ripley and Giger-inspired architecture.
e01OD TIL despite being 200 miles away from the ocean, a beluga whale skeleton was found in Charlotte, Vermont, USA and is the result of an ice sheet pushing down the North American continent.