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TIL During the height of Frasier's popularity, Moose, the dog who played Eddie, received more fan mail than any of his human costars.

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jbyN TIL Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found in 1996. There’s a conservation project to bring it to the surface.
x6bko TIL that the Navajo language, spoken by many indigenous peoples in Arizona and New Mexico, is related to indigenous languages of northwestern Canada and Alaska, all of which form the proposed Na-Dené language family.
p0NQ TIL: Rather than building up, millionaires in central London are building down, creating mega-basements. Nicknamed “iceberg homes” because there’s more square footage under the ground than above.
nWB6d TIL that convicted Texas fraudster, Billie Sol Estes, claimed that while Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson ordered him to kill Henry Marshall, a USDA official, because he feared that he would expose their link to each other.
nDvP TIL that after suffering a heart attack and being saved by one of the few ambulances in the state to be fitted with a defibrillator, Australian billionaire Kerry Packer went halves with the state government to get one fitted in every ambulance in the state.