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TIL that Exeter Cathedral in England has a cat door that was carved in 1598; the cats were employed to keep down the population of mice, who came into the cathedral because the gears of clock were greased with animal fat

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v199D TIL that for much of the 19th Century, former Confederate states considered Thanksgiving an act of "Northern Aggression". Before the Civil War Governor Wise of Virginia dismissed the holiday as "theatrical national claptrap."
ONE7 TIL the number of devices connected to the internet now exceeds the number of people in the world
yQmea TIL there is a movie that runs 625 minutes (10Hrs 25Mins). It ranks among the longest films of all time. It is called "Evolution of a Filipino Family"
6eDm TIL that a treasure hunter named Tommy Thompson located a ship that sank in 1857 called the SS Central America. The ship carried several tons of gold, and in 1987, he recovered over $1 billion worth of gold from it. He never paid back his crew or investors, and hasn’t been seen in years.
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