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TIL there's a dog show like Westminster but for rescues called "American Rescue Dog Show"

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R5W5j TIL that in the '60s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation from the US for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing during WW2
QJp66 TIL: While there is aphantasia, the inability to produce mental images, there is also the even lesser known hyperphantasia, the ability to produce extremely vivid mental images.
XL58 TIL that Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings, saying “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”
lokrB TIL that during the Great Depression, a prominent attorney flipped $2 (inflation adjusted $31) into $100,000 ($1,500,000). He then proceeded to award the money to the woman who could give birth to the most amount of kids in the following decade.
k8JW TIL The United States is close to being in the 30% of nations with the world’s most unequal distribution of wealth, which includes Haiti, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Africa.