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TIL there’s a guy who drives 4200 miles twice a month to bring rescue dogs from the south up to new homes in New England.

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rXv1 TIL Gin and Tonic were originally created by the British East India Company as a way to get soldiers to have quinine to prevent and treat malaria. Quinine (in tonic) was too bitter. In order to get them to drink the tonic officers added the solders’ gin rations with sugar, lime and water.
Z0Ro TIL there are more slaves today than at any other point in human history. Nearly half of which are in India.
QvL TIL that there’s a United States flag of peacetime. It’s striped vertically instead of horizontally.
1awoO TIL In 2014, the International Space Station had to move 3 times in order to avoid being hit by space junk moving at 17,000 mph
4k8G6 TIL the largest county or county-equivalent in the United States is the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska which has a total size of 147,842.51 square miles (382,910.3 square kilometers).