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TIL Moose sound like a chainsaw trying to start.

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GYll7 TIL a black lab named Eclipse is a regular solo rider to a nearby dog park with her bus pass attached to her harness. Her owner meets her there.
grA9L TIL General Tso's chicken is named for Chinese general Tso Tsung-t'ang (1812-1885), best known for recapturing the great western desert region of Xinjiang. Popular in the US, there is no record of any dish named after General Tso in his region of Hunan
5YaYR TIL a single man submersible canoe was developed for special operations in WW2
aw5bN TIL the United Kingdom's 2021 national census was the first census where British people whose way of life or cultural heritage stemming from travelling fairs and circuses were able to register "SHOWMAN" as both an occupation and an ethnicity
RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.