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TIL while dogs can tell humans are a different species, scientists believe that cats may simply think of humans as big, hairless, clumsy cats.

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e0LyJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci received complaints about his procrastinating from one of the priors while painting The Last Supper. He solved the argument by threatening to use that particular prior as the model for Judas in the fresco. The complaints stopped shortly after he made this remark.
VBlnG TIL when Bette Davis diminished Joan Crawford's career by saying she got it through the casting couch, Crawford responded: "It sure as hell beats the hard cold floor."
peNp TIL that legendary author Kurt Vonnuget, a lifelong cigarette smoker, dubbed his habbit “a classy way to commit suicide.”
16x08 TIL about Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac. He was a French nobleman who fought for the Confederates in the American Civil War. When he died in 1913, he was the last surviving Confederate major-general.
VB1VD TIL The town of Crestone, Colorado is the only place in the United States that allows burial on a pyre.