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TIL a Border Collie named Chaser had the largest vocabulary of any animal in history. Being able to identify over 1000 toys by name.

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Z8ERp TIL Dolly Parton is the only person to have been given The Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
ADBWo TIL that a study by Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello showed that when given rewards for helping, children were less likely to help in future situations compared to when they were not given rewards.
QNbed TIL that Georgis Stathis Hatzis freedove 250 feet in three and a half minutes to retrieve a battleship's anchor in 1913. He was described as feeble, suffering from emphysema, and was unable to hold his breath on land for more than 40 seconds.
xVNW0 TIL Shirley Temple's first role at age three was in “Baby Burlesks,” a series of sexually suggestive short films. When she misbehaved on set, she was confined to a black box where she had to sit on a block of ice.
GY8EQ Til theres a place off the coast of Australia where octopus, who are mostly solitary creatures, have made a small “city” of sorts.