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TIL that humans are more closely related to cats than dogs.

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jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds
9bV6 TIL that former USA president Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only President to kill a cougar with a knife.
woXoY TIL Newton's phrase about standing on the shoulders of giants dates back to at least 1159. John of Salisbury wrote then that "we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."
R5DO9 TIL of the Tlatelo Massacre ahead of the '68 Olympics where Mexican Army Intelligence shot the Army General in charge of the troops providing security in a false flag operation blaming the students so the army opened fire on student protestors.
OpNa TIL 350 million years ago, when the newly evolved trees were just 1 foot in height, the landscape was dominated by giant 20 foot tall mushrooms