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TIL that there existed a tree swastika in a German forest that went unnoticed for nearly 60 years.

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oBdvR TIL Owney the dog became world famous in late 1800s for traveling the USA and the world as the beloved mascot for the railway post service. He became a good luck charm because no train he rode on got in an accident. Wherever he went, people hung tags on his harness, which he brought home regularly.
nW5aB TIL spicy foods have a number of positive health outcomes when eaten regularly, including lengthening life expectancy, boosting metabolism, and even fighting off and destroying cancer cells, among other benefits
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.
VMBKk TIL Hawaiian t-shirts are good camo
kaWe TIL China’s pet markets make most of their money on ill animals. Vendors perform tabletop plastic surgery to make sickly mutts resemble more valuable breeds, then pump them full of new blood laced with painkillers and stimulants. The dogs are known as “week dogs,” because they die in seven days.