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TIL Cats are the only species that domesticated themselves.

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R5xe1 TIL Engineers traded Grateful Dead set lists and discussed the setup of the band's concert speaker system on ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet. This led to tape trading over the File Transfer Protocol, and the Internet Archive began to add Grateful Dead shows in 1995.
mxQgR TIL about 18th century thai king Suriyenthrathibodi , who was nicknamed the tiger king for his appalling private life and his acts of cruelty.
4XRyR TIL U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves with his own money in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania
LVA9 TIL that Justin Timberlake guest-starred as a singing booger in an episode of The Cleveland Show
Z8ynD TIL that a man working at Kmart in the 80s and 90s saved a collection of cassette tapes that were sent from Kmart's corporate office to be played over the in-store speaker system while people shopped. He later digitized the tapes and uploaded them online where they can be heard today.