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TIL there are over 86 million pet cats in America

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Zm8p 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.
ZkbR 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.
R5oel TIL in 1985, Wes Craven directed an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Bruce Willis
LQ199 TIL a common year (aka non-leap year) begins and ends on the same day of the week
9w8kM 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 .