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TIL in Sydney there is an annual duck fashion show
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TIL The WHO estimates the total number of stray dogs to be about 200 million, and the total population of free-range dogs to make up about 75-85% of the global dog population.
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TIL there 108 jurisdictions around the world that have something similar to the USA's Miranda Rights.
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TIL that in firing squads, one or more soldiers are given a magazine loaded with blanks so that each soldier can believe that they did not fire the fatal shot. For this reason, it is sometimes named the "conscience round"
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TIL A man in Atlanta confounded doctors and specialists for over a year with a condition which did not respond to any therapies. After he mentioned that he played clarinet in a Dixieland jazz band, researchers examined his instrument and discovered Exophiala fungus inside his mouthpiece
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TIL that the headphones/audio/electronics company Bose gets their name from their chairman, an Indian-American named Amar Bose. His father was an Indian freedom revolutionary, who fled Bengal to avoid persecution from the British colonial police.