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TIL there's a festival in India and Nepal solely to thanking dogs for their loyalty and friendship.

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1pMD TIL The US is “leasing” the Guantanamo Bay land from Cuba and writes them annual checks, which they do not recognize and have not cashed for decades.
xVorw TIL Andrew Myrick, a storekeeper on a Minnesota Native American reservation, told starving natives to get grass if they were hungry. He was found dead on the first day of the Dakota War of 1862 with grass stuffed in his mouth.
XeOX TIL periodic holidays with pay, as well as rest and leisure, are considered universal human rights.
GYZLj TIL about the Open Source Ecology project, which aims to open-source the 50 most important industrial machines of our time, allowing anyone to create a civilization starter kit.
rRp94 TIL of the Noonday Gun - a daily tradition, that has its roots in the grand ambitions and megalomania of the first Tai-pans of the Jardines-Matheson company