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TIL the Epicyon was a prehistoric dog roughly the same size as lion.

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XomD TIL Of the police beating of Robert Leone, an innocent man arrested and tortured for 2 ½ years. The officers are still free, Robert is still in prison.
5YrN9 TIL Doordash subsidizes their own payment of drivers with your tip— IE if you think you tipped $5 extra, they actually used $2 to “pay” the driver.
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.
GYZBJ TIL, Hitler privately expressed great admiration for Mussolini; however, Mussolini had little regard for Hitler. Mussolini said that the Germans were the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
Aea TIL; William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to destroy the hemp industry because hemp became a very cheap substitute for paper pulp and timber.