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Today I learned that the reason why animal shelters are full of huskies, is because of the TV show Game of Thrones. Everyone wanted their own real life dire Wolf, but then abandoned them after they realize how much work they are.

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yVjwJ TIL, Joan Jett’s famous “I love rock and roll” is a cover
e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.
V5mm TIL severing the bridge between the hemispheres in your brain causes the two hemispheres to become separate “selves” with different impulses, desires and capabilities.
DkrJ TIL There is a Rock Paper Scissors tournament held in Las Vegas that pays the winner $50k.