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TIL 93% of dog owners in the U.S. say their dog has made them a better person in at least one way, a study found.

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9YmMG TIL the Wright Brothers almost destroyed the 1903 Flyer, the first plane, in 1912 because they considered it worthless. Their manager talked them out of it.
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”
0A8v TIL that the Devil in “Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny” was played by Dave Grohl.
yVdee TIL about Iris Cummings. She is the last surviving competitor of 1936 Berlin Olympics and also flew military aircraft for the Women Airforce Service Pilots during WW2
X0m0P TIL of the Aghori, an all-male Hindu cult that lives in charnel grounds and eats human flesh to realize nonduality