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TIL dog fox hybrids have been genetically verified. They're known as dogxims.

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D199J TIL of Herman Lehmann, who, at age 11, was captured as a child by Native Americans. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but eventually returned to his family later in life. He wrote an autobiography, “Nine Years Among the Indians,” about the experience.
4XKbw TIL That after a two-year impasse with no new Pope, the Cardinals elected a hermit monk who sent them an angry letter, threatening them with divine judgement. He became Celestine V. He served for five months before implementing a law that allowed Popes to abdicate. He abdicated a week later.
e0p1L TIL of "Skin Hunger" , where not receiving adequate human touch can have emotional and physical consequences.
v1gdx TIL that many people carved various things on the walls of Hagia Sophia throughout the centuries. These runes were carved by a Viking general who is presumed to have gotten bored during the mass and carved "Halvdan was here" on a marble slab.
yVy6l TIL 💥 GRB 221009A nicknamed BOAT • Brightest Of All Time • was the most powerful event ever recorded by humankind. It was a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022 ~ 2 billion light-years away and released 10,000 times the energy our sun will produce over its lifetime