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TIL multiple times in the 1980s a man named John Suter competed in the Iditarod dogsledding race with a team of poodles.

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QNpM6 TIL in Nanquan Town, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, there is a Festival of Lights tradition called Dashuhua (English: beating tree flowers) where local blacksmiths throw molten iron at a cold city wall to create "tree flowers." The tradition dates back to the Ming Dynasty when fireworks were expensive.
0vRp TIL that a 1000MW coal power plant puts 100x more radiation into the atmosphere than a nuclear power plant
ADBax TIL that rebecca black (the girl from the Friday song) still makes music and put out a new album in 2017.
a81Bo TIL the first words ever spoken in a feature film were, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” — delivered by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927).
GG6Q TIL Texas Billionaire T. Cullen Davis hired a hit man to kill his wife which caused the death of his stepdaughter. He later was caught on tape arranging for a hit man to kill his wife and the judge overseeing his divorce proceedings. He was acquitted both times.