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TIL that Georgia's state dog is any "Adoptable dog"

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D1Wbv TIL that iconic scare from 2002's The Ring wasn't Amber Tamblyn in makeup, playing dead. It was actually a body double created by the now retired effects legend Rick Baker who photographed Tamblyn from multiple angles to make the figure look as convincing as possible.
KYVa6 TIL that the first artificial christmas tree was made out of goose feathers
kObY1 TIL that the !Kung people, a society of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, do not know their own ages or years of birth. This is because they have little use for numbers that are not of immediate practical value.
7r1yb TIL Neil Armstrong and Aldrin were almost stranded on the moon because they broke a vital circuit breaker, snapping power to the engine. They finally managed to push and hold it back in with a felt-tip pen long enough for it to work.
OoR9Y TIL that the world’s oldest drawing is a Stone Age crayon doodle drawn on rock in a South African cave dated at 73,000 years old. The drawing is a four-centimeter-long pebble criss-crossed with nine lines. The lines appear to have been drawn with an ochre crayon, a type of clay rich in iron oxide.