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TIL that mother cats will eat their sick or dead kittens to stop predators from discovering the location of the litter.

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grXjy TIL The longest scheduled commercial flight was logged by Air Tahiti Nui in March and April 2020 when it could not land in LAX for refueling due to travel restrictions. The flight from Papeete to Paris covered 9,765 miles, compared to the current longest route between NYC and Singapore (9,537 mi).
neZjW TIL that after being banned from advertising in Formula 1, tobacco companies have found a loophole allowing them to sidestep bans by establishing social responsibility groups with insanely vague mission statements and no purpose. They remain major sponsors of teams in 2020.
W7jr4 TIL that in 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for his alleged anti-government activities with a radical intellectual group. He had already been marched out to the firing squad and was standing before the executioners when the order came through to spare him.
R5Ppl TIL that ‘Gone With the Wind’ was the only novel by Margaret Mitchell that was published in her lifetime. She wrote a novella which wasn’t published until four decades after her death, a novelette which was rejected by publishers and a novel which is now considered lost.
oRvR7 TIL About the 1990's Norwegian black metal scene. It became so dark and violent that it lead to several murders and suicides and the arson of 50 churches. Some of the groups were named Necrobutcher, Stigma Diabolicum, Thou Shalt Suffer, Grimm and Darkthrone.