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TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.

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ZJmv TIL that NASA is well on its way to developing a reactionless propulsion system for spacecraft.
MegYb TIL Keanu Reeves’s stuntman in The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, directed the John Wick movies
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
kOZPW TIL caddisfly larvae spin protective cases out of silk that incorporates bits of sand, gravel, twigs, or other material.
R7rg1 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England forgave and freed his killer, a young French boy whose father and brothers had been killed by Richard; the boy said he shot Richard with a crossbow as revenge, and Richard was so impressed with his bravery that he sent him off with 100 shillings