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TIL daschunds look like they do because they were bred to hunt badgers and other animals that live in burrows

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N7b11 TIL that days after winning the Stanley Cup, Vladimir Konstantinov was paralyzed in a car accident. When the Red Wings repeated as champions the following year, his name was engraved on the Stanley Cup again. Although his number is not officially retired, no other Red Wing has worn #16 since.
xgXb TIL In 2010 a man in Munich was investigated for being jobless but having large sums of cash. It was found that his apartment was full of artwork stolen by the Nazis
4kaLg TIL there was an Australian bushranger in the 1800s named “Captain Thunderbolt”
E1N90 TIL a Japanese teenager, Yaoya Oshichi, was tried for attempted arson in 1682. She did this because she wanted to reunite with a temple worker she met at another fire. They tried to try her as a minor, but she didn't pick up on the judge's hints to lie about her age. She was burned at the stake.
yvEv TIL John Adams once said that if we learned there was no God or life after death, we should all just take a bunch of opium.