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TIL that a Canadian university is offering a room full of puppies to help stressed-out students.

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DQ0kp TIL Jacques-Louis David, the famous artist who painted Napoleon multiple times, including his crossing of the Alps and his coronation, signed the death warrant for the first husband of Napoleon’s wife
woJPW TIL about an island that formed in a volcanic eruption in 1963 and is now used as a study site for how nature colonizes newly formed environments
Akl7 TIL that in the early 90s Sudanese NBA player Manute Bol tried to warn the US Congress and the Pentagon about the threats of Osama bin Laden. His worries were “dismissed”
RVpl TIL that Clint Eastwood bought David Webb Peoples’ script for The Unforgiven in 1976 and sat on it for 15 years until he was old enough to play the lead role of William Munny
kjRg TIL that the Ancient Greeks had a word, akrasia, to describe the lack of will that prevents us from doing something that we know is good for us