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TIL Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I will always love you" in the same night

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jNQJE TIL: The word "Dominican" translates to "God's Dogs" because the word was created as a pun by Catholic monks that started the Dominican Order in 1216.
XE0yX TIL Ronnie O'Sullivan, considered one of the greatest snooker players of all time, once purposely missed a maximum score of 147 by one point because he didn't think the £10,000 prize was high enough.
xgVo TIL the human genome is comprised of 5% - 8% viral DNA, which can be traced back to 30 - 35 separate viral invasions in human history.
xp45 TIL that Muhammad Ali saved someone from committing suicide - and there is a video of it
6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.