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TIL That pure bred dogs are vastly more likely to have a genetic disorder than mixed breeds.

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mVYy TIL that Coca-Cola played a major role in getting King & Spalding, a powerful Atlanta law firm, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act by threatening to change firms.
PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
nnJr TIL that the word “barbarian” means “ person who doesn’t speak Greek ”
O1Q7 TIL An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower.
5Y0VR TIL that ducks can adjust their penis size based on how many female ducks are around.