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TIL dogs and other animals can have heart attacks just like humans and it's important to know the symptoms to recognize them in your pet

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kO0Y4 TIL that sweet potato DNA indicates that Polynesia had contact with South America long before the Europeans.
vPpyj TIL Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while at sea in 1913. Ten days after his disappearance a body was found floating with some of his belongings, but was so decomposed it was unrecognizable and was not kept. The case has remained unsolved.
JAk TIL In Saving Private Ryan, the two “German” soldiers shot trying to surrender were members of the Ost Battalions, prisoners froms eastern European countries invaded and forced into the German army. They were saying, “Please don’t shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone!”
GYR7Q TIL after Robert Bork was rejected by Congress as a Supreme Court judge after a highly controversial set of confirmation hearings, "Bork" was added to the dictionary as a verb whose meaning is "To prevent a person from being appointed to public office by means of systemic vilification or defamation"
lo1Zr TIL: A startup company is teaching crows to clean up cigarette butts for peanuts.