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TIL There is a festival celebrated in Nepal for dogs, honoring their loyalty and friendship.

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vkaj TIL America’s first female self-made millionaire was a black woman
bajj TIL that Febuary the 9th, 1964, almost half (45%) of all US television viewers tuned into the same program: The Ed Sullivan Show and The Beatles
MeQm TIL Average teacher salary in Switzerland in 2010 was $112000 per year
d89W8 TIL that according to legend that many used to believe was fact, the founder and first King of Britain was Brutus of Troy, a descendant of a hero from the Trojan War, and he also founded Troia Nova or New Troy in what is today London. He was also supposedly the ancestor of King Arthur.
0wJ9M TIL A rare mutation among the Bajau people lets them stay underwater longer: natural selection at the PDE10A gene has increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells.