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TIL an 18-month-old German Shepherd named Luna fell off a boat in the Pacific Ocean, swam 2 miles to a nearby island, and survived for 5 weeks by eating mice before she was rescued by a team of Navy staffers. She was found to be slightly under-nourished, but in perfect condition otherwise.

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aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape
eEvk TIL that before the American revolution, the English actually pronounced their R’s, and the English accent then actually sounded like today’s General American accent.
JYXn8 TIL The "Never argue with a fool" quote lacks proof crediting it to Mark Twain. The oldest suspected source is biblical proverbs 26:4 and 26:5: "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes."
GbXJ TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall
ADJ7x TIL The same General Sherman who brought total war to the South in the American Civil War also created and carried out the plans to kill the Great Plains buffalo and destroy the Native American Midwestern tribes.