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TIL that over 80% of Bulldog litters are delivered by Caesarean section because their characteristically large heads can become lodged in the mother's birth canal

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v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.
4XLKw TIL that there are 'Atheist Churches' for secular humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, atheists and agnostics who want a sense of community without having to deal with any of the God stuff
gMEZb TIL of Ranald MacDonald, a Chinook/Scotsman from Oregon Country, who went to Japan in 1848 despite its strict isolationist policy. Risking death, he pretended to be shipwrecked & got captured. While imprisoned, the gov't sent 14 samurai to be his pupils, as he became Japan's first English teacher.
GYd4g TIL that 1816 was a year without summer. Average global temperatures fell by around 1°C after Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, covering the skies around the world in volcanic ash.
NjAb TIL that in 2015 at least 120,000 saiga antelopes died mysteriously in mass. This corresponds to about 50% of the entire population of these rare animals.