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TIL about Chaser. She learned to identify and retrieve 1,022 different toys by their individual names.

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GADm1 TIL in the small town of Norwood Ontario in 1957, some teenagers opened several fire hydrants simultaneously as a prank and caused the towns can-shaped water tower to be crushed inward like a tin can. It remained in use for 35 years and the town became infamous for its crushed water tower
4XGag TIL the 2nd oldest person to host Saturday Night Live was a non-celebrity who was born in 1897. Miskel Spillman, a German immigrant, joked "I'm 80 years old. I need one more cheap thrill, since my doctor told me I only have another 25 years left."
8WEX TIL: Between 1896 and the 1940s, thousands of people paid to see premature babies being incubated at circus sideshows. Since most hospitals didn’t have the funding available to provide incubators, it was the best chance to safe the infant’s lives.
Z86nv TIL About an "Engineers ring" - a ring of stainless steel or iron worn on the pinky to represent being a certified engineer.
GYnjG TIL American medicine still runs on fax machines. A 2017 study found that the fax accounts for 75% of the country's medical communications.