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TIL that Lucy's Law bans pet shops and dealers in England from selling puppies and kittens. It was named after Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who developed fused hips, a curved spine, bald patches and epilepsy after years of mistreatment in the puppy farming system.

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xVwnD TIL of HMS Diamond Rock, which was commissioned as a Royal Navy warship despite being an uninhabited minor Caribbean island between Martinique and St. Lucia. Other British warships had to salute it when passing it.
v15DK TIL that the legal definition of 'material damage' is, "physical impacts to private property caused by turkeys that are visible, persistent, and detrimental to the landowner or lessee's use of the private property."
M76X8 TIL that Claude Fauchet (1530–1602), a French Renaissance humanist and court official, was the first historian to write literary history in French, not Latin. His 1581 work, Recueil de l’origine de la langue et poésie françoise, traced the development of French language and poetry.
gMEE4 TIL of Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in September 1961. Her husband reported her missing in 1965, and he was suspected of her murder. In 2013, Johnson was found alive. She said that she had left because her husband had been abusive.
6EdrZ TIL that Vlad ( Dracul ) got his name from his father . His name had its origin in the Romanian sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul ("Vlad the Dragon"), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon.