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TIL: In 1572 according to Dutch legend, while Prince William the Silent was sleeping in his tent, Spanish assassins lurked outside but was saved by his pug, Pompey, who barked wildly and jumped on his face, waking him up. The pug was then considered the official dog of the House of Orange.

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j69OR TIL Egyptian hieroglyphs from 2690 BCE constitute the earliest known complete sentence and is found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. The sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."
AQpo TIL Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter, posed for Playboy
DneJ TIL Centipedes always have an odd-number of pairs of legs, meaning you will never find one born with exactly 100 legs.
jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
VQeB TIL Chuck Lorre (producer of 2.5 Men, Big Bang Theory) wrote the lyrics to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song