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TIL the Hawaiian island of Kauai encourages tourists to check a dog out of shelters for a day as part of a field trip for dogs program. Having the dogs out and about gives them exercise and increases their chances of getting adopted by a local.

X0LA6 TIL that the first 35 NASA space shuttle astronauts were nicknamed TFNG. The official meaning was "Thirty-Five New Guys", but the real meaning was "The Fucking New Guy", military slang for newcomers to a unit.
nW5RW TIL that that a religion called "the Coconut Religion" was founded in 1963 in Vietnam that advocated subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, with a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship".
E18ZW TIL William the Conqueror’s body exploded at his funeral. He’d died due to an intestinal infection from his horse rearing and throwing him against his saddle pommel. At his funeral, as his too large body was being forced into a too small coffin, his abdomen burst. Mourners ran to escape the stench.
d8Dvr TIL the Sami languages of Norway, Sweden and Finland, have as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow, and conditions of the use of snow.
WkNXo TIL there is a massive subterranean biosphere estimated to contain life approaching double the volume of all oceans. About 70% of Earth's bacteria and archaea live here. These microbes are often very different from surface cousins, with life cycles on near-geologic timescales.