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TIL that when Alexander the Great's beloved dog, Peritas, died he founded a city and named it "Peritas" in his honor.

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R58Jj TIL Todd Field, award-winning and Oscar-nominated director of Tar, helped create the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum as a child.
16ODX TIL that in 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on CSX Transportation's Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Alabama. 47 people were killed and 103 others were injured. Such a rail disaster had not occurred in the U.S. since the 1958 Newark Bayou rail accident, in which 48 people died.
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