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TIL there's a type of rabbit-sized mini deer (chevrotain)

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ZpKy4 TIL of Snuppy, an Afghan hound and the first cloned dog. The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers. Snuppy was named as Time Magazine's "Most Amazing Invention" of the year in 2005. As of 2017 there are four clones of him.
BZK TIL andy kaufman produced the arguably greatest troll idea in history, in which he demanded during a mainstream show he was an actor for, that they broadcast 30 seconds of static to fuck with people who would think their TVs were broken
W7aDL TIL that in what is now France in the 9th century, Charlemagne institutionalized wolf hunting, established the louveterie (wolf hunting corps). Since then, the wolf population in France fell close to extinction. Last confirmed hunt was in 1937.
4X1PR TIL-one reason for the popularity and growth of Palm Springs was due to the Hollywood studio's '2 hour rule' mandating that stars had to be that close by car in case they were needed for filing
e0Xn4 TIL that in early Japan, when the head of a household died his house was burned; before the founding of Kyoto, whenever an emperor died his entire capital city was burned as a rite of purification.