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TIL eating feces is a common practice for the Shih Tzu dog breed :)

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gM9Y4 TIL: Thomas Jefferson helped popularize mac and cheese in America by serving it to his dinner guests during his Presidency. He even had his own recipe
M7xR8 TIL when Dean Martin was signed to Paramount in California in 1949, he was thrilled to be out of NYC as he had a lifelong discomfort with the city, mainly because of its tall buildings. When he leased a Manhattan highrise, he lived on the third floor. He also liked L.A. as it had few tall buildings.
yVNOp TIL when the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impacted the Moon, the impact was picked up by seismometers put in place during Apollo 12.
BgORL TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
epDy6 TIL the English word 'arena' comes from the Latin word harena, which was the fine-grained sand spread on the floor to soak up gladiator blood.