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TIL there is a blind dog assisted by a seeing-eye goose.

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VVyp TIL George Washington stopped the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to the enemy. The terrier of a British general was found wandering the battlefield. The US waved a truce flag, and both sides stopped shooting until the dog was successfully returned to the British commander.
N7ArN TIL that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 23 sequels to Tarzan of the Apes. The ape-man discovers he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, fights alongside Germans in WWI, finds a colony of Atlantis and the City of Gold, befriends a tribe of dog-sized humans, and has other bizarre adventures.
4D5a TIL that in classical Athens, the punishment for sleeping with another man’s wife was to be publicly sodomized with a spicy radish.
1a0L8 TIL the Aussie word Esky (for cooler box or chilly bin) comes from the word Eskimo
RGP4 TIL: According to physics there may exist the opposite of a black hole which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it. It is aptly named: a white hole.