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TIL mercy dogs were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land

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m1JpY TIL that Beck rejected Weird Al's request to parody his hit 1990s song "Loser" because Beck felt he already wasn't being taken seriously as artist. Later though, Beck regretted this decision saying “I think it would have been an amazing video. I’m actually really sad it didn’t happen.”
Gdk4 TIL that Christmas trees can be recycled. Louisiana uses them to build shoreline fences to reduce erosion and form new marshes.
ADPkx TIL that in 2038, we will have another Y2K-style software issue with dates, as 32 bit software can't represent time past Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond that will be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as Friday, 13 December 1901
VM8e0 TIL that On July 21, 1972, George Carlin was arrested and charged with violating obscenity laws after performing his famous "Seven Dirty Words" routine at Milwaukee's Summerfest. He would go on to be arrested a total of seven times for reciting that same routine.
ZpvVD TIL that the oldest intact shipwreck ever found is a Greek trading vessel from 400 BC, discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea.