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TIL all dogs have 3 eyelids

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mknx TIL: The “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. It got its name from children slurring the ending of the alphabet song together so “and per se and” became “ampersand”
newkY TIL Marie Holmes won $188 million & vowed to give her church a big donation. After commuting to donate $1.5 million, the pastor sued her for $10 million for a verbal agreement to donate more. The pastor said Holmes gave him emotional stress, causing him to take medicine for anxiety and depression.
p8eDe TIL India has 3 foot long, multicolored squirrels.
dDj9Q Today I Learned that George Washington’s first 100 days as president were consequential, popular, and effective. Notably, he willingly established limits to the power of the executive branch.
b9koN TIL that to avoid the censure of his father, a railroad worker who disapproved of poets, the teenage writer Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto wrote and published poetry under a pseudonym: Pablo Neruda. He would later legally adopt the name and go on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.