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TIL the convention of naming a dog "Fido" was popularized by Abraham Lincoln. "Fido" means "faithful" and it's use as a dog's name dates back to the ancient Romans.

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O6GX TIL Orson Welles once met Hitler in the 1920s at a dinner, but later described the encounter saying, “He made so little impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it. He had no personality whatsoever.”
xVJwk TIL that females of many mammal species have a bone in their clitoris called 'the baubellum or os clitoridis'
M7y80 TIL of caudal regression syndrome, a rare birth defect that causes regression of development of the lower spine and limbs.
W7EV9 TIL In some cultures, smiling is seen as a sign of lack of intelligence or honesty.
JL9j TIL that in 2012, Neil Armstrong’s widow Carol Armstrong found a hidden stash of moon landing artifacts inside his closet - and the hoard included the famed 16 mm camera that captured Apollo 11 crew’s planting of the US flag on moon’s surface.