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TIL dogs sneeze to communicate to other dogs that they’re not being aggressive

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KORea TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally designed in the 1860s for Egypt. Named 'Progress Carrying the Light to Asia', French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi modelled the statue after an Egyptian woman dressed in a veil. Due to costs, the idea was rejected, and a lighthouse was erected instead.
0E95 TIL Michael Massee, the actor whose gun killed Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow, took a year off from acting after the accident and still has nightmares about it. “I don’t think you ever get over something like that,” he said.
8aP5P TIL that in 2009, British PM Gordon Brown hand-wrote a letter of condolence to a mother whose son had died in Afghanistan, in which he misspelled the son's surname. The Sun (a tabloid) wrote a scathing article criticizing his mistake. In this article, the paper misspelled the same name.
6ELdm TIL by the end of WW2, the United States was spending $213,000,000 a day on the war effort; adjusted for inflation, that's over three billion dollars a day.
QNQ1p TIL Press, Tap, Release is an easy, effective method to unclog your blocked nasal passage