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TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”

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N7P4b TIL in 1941, a Great Dane named Juliana saved her master's home from burning down during the Blitz by urinating on a German incendiary bomb which had fallen through the roof. For this she was awarded the Blue Cross, similar to the Dickin Medal.
m1XmE TIL that the name for a group of hamsters is a "horde".
ePbE TIL James Doohan (Star Trek’s original Scotty) helped a suicidal fan turn her life around by calling and asking her to attend a convention
PYY7J TIL that “Charles Entertainment Cheese” is Chuck E. Cheese’s full name.
R76b7 TIL in the anatomy building at Dalian Medical University, where medical student can practice on cadavers, there's a sign with a quote from a donor that reads "I’d rather let students try something 20 times on me than see them make one mistake on a future patient.”