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TIL in season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the Dire wolves were played by a relatively new breed of dog known as the Northern Inuit Dog.

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gMNBL TIL that in thanks to Benjamin Franklin, all electrical diagrams (at least in the U.S.) are technically backwards (in terms of electron flow/direction). He assumed the flow of electricity originated from the positive terminal of a current source, and traveled to the negative terminal.
XEB1Q TIL Minni Wooden Coffins were found in Edinburgh in the 1800s and their meaning hasn't been yet confirmed
R7lQl TIL in 1909, the citizens of Ulysses, Kansas, moved their whole city (including buildings) to evade exorbitant property taxes.
wvOE TIL Georg Cantor, the mathematician who came up with the idea that ‘infinity has different sizes’, was rejected by most of his contemporaries for his ideas and, as a result, suffered from depression until the end of his life.
oRoeW TIL about a former MI6 officer who tried to sell sensitive information to the Dutch, who then turned around and told MI5 about it. He claimed voices in his head told him to sell the secrets.