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TIL nude means “unclothed” while naked means “unprotected”

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GYxrG TIL the Bull Arab originates from Australia and is commonly called the Australian Pig Dog since they were originally developed to hunt and hold pigs pinned to the ground by the ear. Currently, its breed status is not recognized as a breed by any major kennel club.
GA5Y7 TIL about Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine after he put his name on his student Hilde Mangold's dissertation. She discovered embryonic induction, one of the first steps toward cloning, but died in 1924.
ep6OE TIL about the Mapogo lion coalition, a gang of male lions who ruled over 170,000 acres of South Africa
5YV58 TIL that both OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong sat on Corporate Audit Boards
woJxo TIL in 2011, Dr. Pepper Ten's "It's not for women" ad campaign included a Facebook page that was for men only and the label and cans for the drink used "gunmetal gray" so it would appeal to men. About 40% of the people at the time who tried it were women.