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TIL that Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer, immigrated to the United States illegally

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oBk1r TIL train robber Elmer McCurdy's mummified corpse was used as decoration in carnivals during the 1920's and wasn't properly identified as real until 1976. It scared a young boy named Mark Taylor so greatly it stuck with him into adulthood, and inspired him to create He-Man's nemesis: Skeletor.
xW1B TIL a pencil can draw a line that’s roughly 35 miles long.
JYwkm TIL of Black Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every August when the new cohort of junior doctors begin working in the NHS after graduating medical school, where patients are about 6% more likely to die than on other days
mxMDy TIL that North Korea is the only country with a 100% literacy rate according to UNESCO
LklyZ TIL that the world's oldest still-functioning light bulb is purported to be the Centennial Light in Livermore, California. Maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Dept, the bulb was installed in 1901 and has only been turned off a handful of times.