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TIL that male puppies will let female puppies win at play fighting so that they will continue to play with them

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ANpB TIL that in China, strippers were often hired for funerals until recently
69ARm TIL that during the state opening of parliament in 1845, the Duke of Argyll accidentally dropped the Imperial State Crown, causing £150 (23,000$ today) worth of damage. Of the accident, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:" [The Crown] was all crushed and squashed, like a pudding that had set down."
BO6D TIL That in the original story, the slippers in Cinderella were made from squirrel fur, and the glass slipper likely came from a mistranslation.
R7an1 “A lot of cats knock things over because they have learned it is a quick and easy way to get their human’s attention”
dDMrQ TIL underground salt caverns are a common way to store crude oil