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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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7JXb TIL that in 2006, a 12-year-old spearheaded a study that revealed 70% of the time ice at a fast food restaurant is dirtier than their toilet water
4XeBb TIL that for a cloth bag to actually be sustainable and better for the environment, it has to be reused 131 times to break even with the plastic bags in terms of impact on environment in the process of making. (While plastic bags can also be reused but people just don't)
yVYKX TIL that the world record for the longest Uber ride is 2,798 miles, set by YouTuber Mathew Beem in July 2021
GYVNE TIL that the city of Erbil in Iraq has a 'bulge' in the middle that has formed over the course of 6000 years as new buildings have been built over the remains of old ones
yQX9l TIL that the notorious Nazi general, Erwin Rommel, abandoned the mother of his first child.