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TIL you are not supposed to take your dogs on an escalator as it can cause them serious injury

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ep0nk TIL that domesticated queen bees are often marked with a daub of paint on their thorax; the color of the paint indicates the year the queen hatched.
pLmZ TIL In 2011, Fleshlight, a brand of artificial-vagina sex-toys, sent a complimentary package of its products to the members of the SEALs team that killed Osama bin Laden.
neOjY TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.
gMBW9 TIL there is an elite private prep school in NYC called the Horace Mann school, named after the 19th Century American educational reformer Horace Mann, who advocated for quality public education. Tuition is more than $52,000/year
Pp1n TIL that Mythbuster’s Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at the age of 14 and then hitchhiked all over the US. After that he is now a certified diver,wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef.