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TIL there's a dog obesity crisis in the United Kingdom

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OprX TIL A man was imprisoned for 25 years before a hotel receipt finally proved he could not have been at the scene of the crime he had been falsely convicted for.
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d7VE TIL that the Times said in 2013 that it does not publish letters from climate change deniers: “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy’ that doesn’t belong in our pages.”