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TIL that gif is pronounced as "jif" and not as gif as confirmed by the creator of the gif

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16e0W TIL a stray dog followed Dion Leonard, who was running in a week-long ultramarathon in the Gobi Desert, for 77 miles of the 155-mile race. At night the dog even started to join him in his tent. He named her Gobi, & after the race, he crowdfunded the £5K needed to bring her back to Scotland with him.
lQdA TIL Hitler had plans to build a “People’s Hall”, a 700 foot dome which would have been the largest enclosed structure on earth, complete with its own weather system inside of the building because of the sheer size.
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50KQ TIL Bob Ross was a Master Sergent in the US Airforce. He was required to be “mean and tough,” to be “the guy who scream at you for being late to work.” After 20 years he left the military and decided “he would never scream again.” 3 years later he started “The Joy of Painting”
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