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TIL A Dog’s anal glands sometimes need to be manually emptied to avoid discomfort. A sign of discomfort is a dog chasing its tail or dragging its posterior on the ground.

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ANo1o TIL that the youngest person ever executed was 9-year old John Dean in 1629, who was accused of setting fire to two barns/houses in the nearby town of Windsor and was subsequently indicted, arraigned, and convicted on the same day, and was "hanged accordingly".
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