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TIL Eduard Khil or Edward Hill died only 2 years after reaching internet fame from the Trololo song.

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oBdvR TIL Owney the dog became world famous in late 1800s for traveling the USA and the world as the beloved mascot for the railway post service. He became a good luck charm because no train he rode on got in an accident. Wherever he went, people hung tags on his harness, which he brought home regularly.
R7Vra TIL There is no such thing as an "alpha" in a wolf pack. Wolf packs operate more like human families: there is no defined sense of rank, parents are in charge until the young grow up, younger wolves don't overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader, and social dominance fights are situational
Xwpk TIL overweight or obese girls are at least 15% more likely than their recommended-weight peers to have had anal intercourse
pYE9e TIL Bees and flowers are both electrically charged which allows a bee to detect which flower still has nectar
X00Rj TIL that when Yoshitaro Shibasaki and his team completed their 1907 ascent of Mount Tsurugi — thought to be the final unclimbed mountain remaining in the Japanese archipelago — they found an ancient sword at the summit that was later determined to have been left there more than 1000 years earlier.