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TIL that the word "mortgage" literally means "death-pledge" in French

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8aGn4 TIL of a Russian dog whose owners were killed in a car accident. Despite attempts to adopt or re-home him, the dog refused to leave the site of the accident and waited for them until it died 7 years later. The city informally adopted the dog and dedicated a statue to honor his loyalty.
WklJA TIL In 2019, a potato chip factory in Hong Kong found a World War I grenade in a shipment of French-grown potatoes, just as the potatoes were going through their processing machines.
NX5XJ TIL that in 2021 The Republic of Turkey officially changed it's spelling to Türkiye
Oo8P6 TIL the search and rescue dogs of 9/11 became depressed as fewer and fewer live bodies were being found. To help combat this, human rescue workers occasionally hid in the rubble to be found and reward the dogs.
b96Zj TIL that Saddam Hussein was shown the film "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" while on trial for crimes against humanity as a form of torture.