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TIL Kenny Rogers started his music career as a double bass player in a jazz trio

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oBgVW TIL that there is a contagious dog tumor which spreads through sexual interaction with other dogs and those tumors can be traced back to a dog which lived 11 thousand years ago which means the living cells of this dog survived through other dogs.
ADNRB TIL The Duck Tales theme song spawned from the song Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters written by Mark Mueller
YXbZ TIL That dogs hesitate going out into the rain not because they don’t like getting wet, but because the rain amplifies sound and hurts their sensitive ears.
ZEBp TIL There’s an airline that charges by your total weight, so fat people pay more than thin people
a8pno TIL the Alabama Hills are in California, not Alabama. Confederate sympathizers named the range after the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the Civil War. Kearsarge, another area of the Sierra, is named for the ship that sunk the Alabama.