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TIL That in October 2015 a dog named Trigger shot his owner in the foot.

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Zlxo TIL if you’re a stripper… panties, Bras and breast implants can be tax deductible since they are “business expenses” [NSFW]
bAeN TIL “Mele Kalikimaka,” the Hawaiian phrase for “Merry Christmas,” is actually just a phonetic attempt to say the English phrase using the palette of sounds available in the Hawaiian language.
XEGVk TIL Rachmaninoff created a piece based on an inversion of the melody of a Paganini's theme, by flipping the melody "upside-down", reversing its contour, so (almost) all the rising parts become falling parts.
1JM4 TIL the “rain room” in London, makes rain fall everywhere in the room except the spot your standing.
OYXe TIL the U.S. is the only country that does not dip its flag to the host country at the Olympics opening ceremonies. When the U.S. flag-holder was asked to do so for King Edward VII at the 1908 London games, he supposedly responded, “This flag dips to no earthly king.”