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TIL Guinness was not suitable for vegetarians until 2018

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QNMRE TIL about Rip. A ww2 search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people.
GYxX1 TIL that stapes (or stirrup) is the smallest bone in humans, measures roughly 3 x 2.5mm and is found in the middle ear
9wgoQ TIL Oxford Dictionaries named the emoji 😂 (Face With Tears of Joy, U+1F602) as Word of the Year in 2015
b64x0 TIL that it's common practice for farmers to grind up dead, diseased pigs and their feces, and feed it to other pigs.
GAWeE TIL that Xmas is has historically been used as far back as the 16th century and the X is a Greek substitution for their letter χ pronounced “chi” in place of the first character of the Greek for Christ - Χριστός