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TIL of San Diego's 2012 July 4th celebration. A computer error caused all the fireworks to go off in a span of ~15 seconds instead of the 18 minutes it was meant to take

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1E4W TIL a sheepdog named Pero who was sold to a sheep farmer in Cumbria, escaped and made 240-mile solo journey back to its birthplace of Ceredigion to reunite with his original owner.
Vx9Z TIL - Emilia Clarke once did a cameo for Futurama playing a character that didn’t have a sense of smell and fell in love with Zoidberg
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
694Dm TIL birds masturbate
m1map TIL that Henry Hill, whose life was the basis for the movie Goodfellas, was kicked out of the witness protection program in the 1990s and lived until he was 69