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TIL that “giddyup” is a contraction of “get thee up”

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X06Q TIL that in Soviet Union people with PhD in Atheism were important.
VM9r4 TIL of Ruswarp. Pronounced Russup, he was a 14 year old border collie who stayed at the side of his fallen master for 11 winter weeks on a Welsh mountainside. He lived just long enough to attend his master's funeral. Now his statue looks across the countryside where he once walked.
b6n4p TIL : a man from colombia was diagnosed with tapeworm cancer
d8AYr TIL Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger lake that drained in a single, catastrophic event 14,000 years ago.
8eEbG TIL in 1999, the Georgia Institute of Technology created an organic computer out of leech neurons.