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TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.

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78p5L TIL that all (northern hemisphere) thoroughbred horses celebrate their birthday on Jan 1st.
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