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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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W07Y TIL that Samsung was originally founded as a 40-employee trading company in 1938. It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles.
5YJ09 TIL that there is a fire in a Zoroastrian temple in Iran that has burned for more 1500 years straight
ldJA TIL there’s a town in Norway (Rjukan) that’s in shadow for three full months of the year. As a result, townspeople have built giant mirrors on the mountainside to reflect natural light on their homes.
D48g TIL Woodie Guthrie said of This Land is Your Land “This song is Copyrighted in U.S… and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do”
wdRE TIL a man narrowly avoided the death penalty after his alibi was confirmed at a dodgers game on the show Curb Your Enthusiasm.