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TIL in the early 18th century, the St. Bernard dog breed was used by monks living in St.Bernard's Pass to help rescue people after snowstorms. Their resistance to cold weather and great sense of direction made them helpful for this. They were even able to find people deeply buried under snow.

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xB91 TIL that due to DNA research on Richard III’s remains, the current English royal family may not have a legitimate claim to the throne.
yVKlp TIL Astronauts had to leave unnecessary items behind on the moon so the Apollo lander could lift off safely. These items included golf balls, cameras, boots, a telescope and 96 bags of poop, urine and vomit.
woE67 TIL that ghost jobs are a form of false advertisement that many companies use without the intent to hire, for various reasons, such as fabricating fake statistics about their industries, spy on competitors’ wages or collect resumes for future use.
LQd8V TIL that Vince Guaraldi, who composed the music for the Peanuts TV specials, was good friends with The Grateful Dead. He appears on the back cover of their album Aoxomoxoa (sitting on a horse), and supposedly played with them as a temporary keyboardist in the early 70s.
ojyR TIL of the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, a sixteenth century medieval atlas with artistic hand drawn eyewitness maps of major world cities. Organized and compiled in the year 1570, it utilized the talent and works of several cartographers. The first traditional “world atlas”, it contains 53 maps.