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TIL a cat’s tongue is made out of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails

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60ym TIL in 1947, James Hanes, the hosiery magnate who started the Hanes brand, helped found the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, driving the eugenics movement in North Carolina, which sterilized 7,600 people who were deemed unworthy of having children.
BgLQx TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
x6KRg TIL of the de Mailly-Nesle Sisters, 4 out of 5 of whom were Mistresses to King Louis XV of France
6EOXX TIL that the first Thanksgiving meal included eels, shellfish, wildfowl, and deer, and there was definitely no cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie.
Bg6nL TIL that leap year is skipped on years divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400.