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TIL famous playwright Henrik Ibsen, after overhearing his nurse assure a visitor he was doing better, spluttered his last words, “On the contrary!”

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p8YZA TIL that three stray dogs saved nearly 50 soldier's lives in Afghanistan in 2010 after they fought off a suicide bomber. Two of the dogs survived and were taken to the U.S. to be reunited with the soldiers after $21,000 was raised on Facebook.
OGVra TIL about Leucochloridium or “Zombie Snail”, a parasite that infects a snail's eye stalks, making them grow bigger & pulsate. This attracts birds that eat the snail, transmitting the parasite to the bird's digestive system, where it reproduces & infects more snails.
x6457 TIL a team of researchers at UC Irvine found that the average attention span in 2004 was 150 seconds. In 2012 it was found to be 75 seconds, and recently was found to be 47 seconds.
DQrv TIL in 1995, Newsweek published an article to suggest that the Internet was doomed to die. “So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?”
gMoOA TIL that Tommy Cash and Tommy Jennings recorded a duet called "My Mother's Other Son" about their famous brothers, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.