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TIL: Dogs that get fed once daily, have better outcomes across 9 categories of health conditions compared with dogs that eat more frequently.

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mxAvO TIL about Shavarsh Karapetyan was a world-record holder in finswimming. In 1976, a bus with 90 people crashed into a lake, he rescued over 20 people by repeatedly diving, was hospitalized for 3 weeks, suffered irreversible lung damage, and set another world record at the next USSR championship.
JYxn1 TIL McDonald's trademarked McJobs in 1984 as training for handicapped people. Now, they protest or threaten legal action for dictionaries who've defined it as a dead-end job. They even tried to get their workers to petition those dictionaries, but workers refused and agreed with current definitions.
LkekZ TIL that Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr have all made separate special guest voice appearances, as themselves, in episodes of The Simpsons. Of the "Fab Four", the only Beatle to never make an appearance is John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, nine years before the show started.
QDKM TIL that the town of Boring, Oregon has ‘paired up’ with the town of Dull, Scotland to promote tourism in both places.
OoL04 TIL about José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who spend 14 months adrift on the Pacific Ocean.