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TIL of Bobbie the Wonder Dog, who walked from Indiana to Oregon to return to his family

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woeLY TIL US government is putting together a team to disclose existence of "non-human intelligence" to the public. The team will include 1 current or former foreign service official, 1 scientist or engineer, 1 economist, 1 professional historian and 1 sociologist.
Y7bWZ TIL Some languages don't have Relative Directions (Left/Right). They instead use Cardinal Directions (North/South/East/West) for all spatial references.
jn5Q TIL Roger Williams, the Father of Separation of Church and State, was devoutly religious and wanted to keep the two separate to protect the Church from the State, not the other way around.
yQknl TIL after Hurricane Katrina, 4,500 public school teachers were fired in New Orleans, teacher unions were outlawed, and almost all schools were privatized. The firings were ruled illegal but no one got their jobs back.
XxNk TIL that when Alfred Hitchcock was filming Psycho, he bought as many copies of the book version as he could so that audiences wouldn’t be able to know the ending before seeing the film