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TIL that in 1981, a dog named Bosco was elected honorary mayor of Sunol, California, defeating two human candidates. He served until his passing in 1994 and even became a symbol in international discussions about democracy.

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9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
wo846 TIL Canada's population growth rate of 2.7% in 2022 would put it among the top 20 in the world. Almost all countries with a higher pace of population growth were in Africa.
dDDar TIL SETI itself has maintained that "Contact (1997 film) is indescribably more accurate in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in history."
KOJvE TIL The first proper banks would have sprung up in ancient Mesopotamia. There's evidence that there were temples and palaces throughout Babylonia and other cities which provided lending activities. Although, a lot of this was not in the form of financial lending. Instead, banks would lend out seeds.
7rM TIL: That the Nike Slogan “Just do it” was inspired by someone on death row about to die.