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TIL Australian Shepherds aren’t from Australia!

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Kw04 TIL that in 2013, the first night of Hannukah will fall on the American Thanksgiving day, 11/28/13. This has never happened before, and it will not happen again until the year 79,811.
bX0a TIL that when VCRs/Betamax initially came out, TV and film studios tried to contend that recording content from your television onto tape to watch again later constituted copyright infringement. It took a 1984 Supreme Court case to finally rule it as ‘fair use’.
GYBY4 TIL at Boston’s Logan International Airport, two American flags fly above gates B-32 and C-19. These gates are where American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 departed from on 9/11.
eXw6 TIL that the Secret Service purchased a 1907 White Motor Company steam car to follow President Theodore Roosevelt’s horse-drawn carriage. The president himself eschewed riding in the vehicle due to his “image as a rough-riding horseman”.
Lpd9 TIL that a volcano trapped some salt water sardines, sharks and sea snakes in a lake. Over centuries the animals adapted and evolved to form new species, the world’s only fresh water sardines, sharks and sea snakes.