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TIL dogs were first domesticated in southern China, and that all modern dog breeds are the descendants of ancient Chinese wolves.

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7rDXX TIL that there were riots against curfews and pandemic-arresting procedures in Russia, in 1830; they were called 'The Cholera Riots'.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.
XEanP TIL While filming the 2000 hit movie, Castaway, Tom Hanks received a cut and got a staph infection that nearly killed the Academy Award winning actor. The cut gave him blood poisoning, Hanks was in the hospital for 3 days and production of the movie was shut down for 3 weeks.
BwjK TIL that crows pass the ‘marshmallow test’: they resist the temptation to eat a food if they know a tastier treat is coming later. This test of self-control is used to assess mental development in humans.
W7XMB TIL that 95% of global shipbuilding takes place in China, South Korea and Japan