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TIL that Dagwood Bumstead is a son of a billionaire railroad tycoon that got disinherited when he married Blondie.

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b8b0 TIL that Mister Rogers once had his car stolen and had it returned 48 hours later. After he filed a police report and TV picked up on it it was returned with an apology letter.
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
d8aKE TIL that there are thousand year old bacteria and viruses hiding in the ice caps that if melted and released could cause a new wave of deadly diseases that we haven't experienced before.
R5jej TIL that it snows metal on Venus
pYZEA TIL about the Dickin medal which was created in 1943 in the UK to award the work of animals in World War II. It has been awarded 75 times, most recently in 2023 to Bass, a Belgian Malinois of the US Marine Special Operation Command.