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TIL Burlington, Ontario closes a section of King Road for annual migration of the Jefferson salamander.

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Z80Ko TIL there are more than 5000 companies worldwide that are older than 200 years. More than 3000 of them are located in Japan and the oldest company in the world was Kongō Gumi, a construction company in Japan, which had its origin traced back to 578 AD. It was liquidated in 2006.
P6ag TIL of The Dire Wolf Project, a project to breed German Shepherds to resemble dire wolves. It started in 1988 and focuses first on health and temperament. They are enormous, scary, shaggy and, by all accounts, terribly sweet.
Meg40 TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
698pY TIL: The "Wade" in the Roe v Wade was a district attorney in Dallas , TX and presided over the Jack Ruby case.
jW1a TIL Killer Whales are able to learn to speak Dolphin. When killer whales were socialized with bottlenose dolphins at a water facility, they changed the types of sounds they made to resemble those of their social partners