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TIL that visual identification of dog breeds can't be done accurately

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e0NjJ TIL: Supernova remnants can still be visible 40,000 years after stars explode
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Bgpyb TIL "Waltzing Matilda" is Australian slang for traveling on foot with a bundle of belongings. In the 1895 song an itinerant narrator takes a stray sheep for dinner, and after a pursuit by lawmen he drowns in a watering hole and becomes a ghost.
XXaP TIL L. Ron Hubbard believed so strongly that he had been Cecil Rhodes in a previous life that in 1966 he travelled to Rhodesia to recover the huge amounts of gold and diamonds he had stashed away in this previous life. Declared an unwanted persons, he was deported and lost $200,000 on the expedition
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