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TIL there are over 86 million pet cats in America
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TIL that there was a walled city in Hong Kong that housed over 33,000 people in 0.010 square miles, or about one city block.
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TIL originally Chicago wasn’t built high enough above Lake Michigan to be able to dig sewers, so engineers lifted the entire city by 4-14 feet starting in 1855. The project took 20 years to finish.
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TIL in 1985, Wes Craven directed an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Bruce Willis
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TIL a common year (aka non-leap year) begins and ends on the same day of the week
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TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .