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TIL that Benjamin Franklin pioneered the Pros and Cons list

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p8YZA TIL that three stray dogs saved nearly 50 soldier's lives in Afghanistan in 2010 after they fought off a suicide bomber. Two of the dogs survived and were taken to the U.S. to be reunited with the soldiers after $21,000 was raised on Facebook.
O0pe TIL: Steve Wozniak was the first owner of the phone number 888-888-8888. But it proved unusable, receiving over 100 wrong numbers a day – mostly from babies playing with the phone.
5YjOk TIL over 7% of America is afflicted by Autoimmune disorders.
N7LGE TIL Jane Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals although"My mother's friends were horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten me and give me nightmares."
eB4b TIL that a vehicle’s “dashboard” originally was a barrier of wood or a leather apron affixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris “dashed”(tossed) up by the wheels and horses’ hooves.