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TIL Queen Elizabeth stopped breeding corgis in 2015. She doesn’t want to leave any young dogs behind when she dies.

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xjjk TIL that Kryptonite was invented because Superman’s original voice actor wanted time off, and the only way to do this was to make Superman sick.
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