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TIL that dogs can get dementia.

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rX1 TIL there was a Finnish sniper called “The White Death” in WWII who has the largest confirmed kill count in history.
DjYj TIL that in 1944 a black teenager named George Stinney was accused of murdering two white girls on flimsy evidence, he was tried without legal representation with an all-white jury, and he was executed by electric chair at the age of 14
Me4am TIL that the 1968 Pandemic H3N2 virus, commonly referred to as the Hong Kong Flu Virus, was an extremely contagious virus with a low fatality rate that originated in China and was widespread in the United States about five months later. It struck in two waves, with the second being more deadly.
O8ja TIL that the end of a tape mesaure is supposed to move back and forth to account for its own width in inside/outside measurements
b6roZ TIL Uranus had been observed and catalogued multiple times going as far back as 128 BCE. However, due to its very slow orbit and dimness it was always misclassified as a star until 1781. The discovery that it was actually a planet effectively doubled the size of the known solar system.