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TIL Hyenas are more closely related to felines than canines.
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TIL that Marcus Garvey died after reading his own obituary in a newspaper. He’d suffered stroke in January 1940, and then read his own obituary in the Chicago defender; it described him as "broke, alone and unpopular". Apparently as a result, he had a second stroke and died.
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TIL North Koreans once attended a UN meeting with AK-47s underneath their jackets. Rather than confront them about it, American officers turned up the temperature in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes.
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TIL You don’t see white dog poop anymore due to the reduction of bone meal in dog foods; the calcium in bone meal is what turned the poop white.
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TIL that a honeybee's ejaculation is so strong, humans can hear it
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TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding