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TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”

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lo8oN TIL that much like "Seeing Eye" dogs for the blind, there are "Hearing Ear" dogs for the deaf.
v1Mor TIL as of 2019 the recommended prefix for 10^27 is "ronna" and for 10^30 is "quecca".
e0nV6 TIL of Togo, the real hero dog of the Serum run to Nome in 1925 who ran more then any other sled team (including Balto's) saved his teams lives by going through a blizzard blind and crossing breaking ice.
gMyM8 TIL: Egypt is the oldest country in the world. It became a country c 6000 BCE
gM1Gb TIL the Japanese squadron that bombed Pearl harbour was detected by a prototype Hawaiian Radar before the air raid but no alert was sent out, as nobody believed the inexperienced radar operators.