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TIL that in 2001, a Boy Scout got lost near Yellowstone and ended up spending the night in a cave. In the morning, he woke to the sound of a helicopter and managed to get the pilot's attention. Upon boarding the helicopter, he was shocked to see the pilot was none other than actor Harrison Ford.

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PvRe TIL that James Smith, husband of Moira, an NYPD officer who died saving people in the towers on 9/11 and was awarded “Woman Of The Year” by Glamour, returned the award after seeing it be given to Caitlyn Jenner, stating “Is this the best you could do?”
W7Ya4 TIL that dingoes were brought to Australia by humans around 4,000 years ago, and are actually an ancient breed of domestic dog
x66Bo TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler's astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as 'complete nonsense'.
bLa7 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
mMKp TIL the average lifetime cost of raising a dog is $23,410