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TiL About The Map: Vesuvius, 1832 ,Kate Wiles on Auldjo’s artistic map of Vesuvius across 200 year of major eruptions.

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Dmng TIL of the Gombe Chimpanzee War, a conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Tanzania that lasted 4 years and included violent skirmishes, numerous deaths and kidnappings
WkBjA TIL Pope Gregory IX's association of cats with witchcraft led to the wholesale slaughter of the critters, and some scholars believe believe that by the 1300’s, Europe’s cat numbers were sufficiently depleted to prevent them from killing rats and mice, allowing the bubonic plague to spread.
b69P9 TIL white asparagus is actually the same species as green asparagus, its shoots are simply covered with soil to avoid photosynthesis
R5WP8 TIL the man whose wife and five Sunday school students were killed during WWII by a Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon then married the older sister of two of the Sunday schoolers, went to South Vietnam for missionary work with his new family, was kidnapped by the Viet Cong, and remains missing.
GAnK5 TIL that Jimmy Carter was not a fan of Salman Rushdie's work and wrote a 1989 op-ed calling his book an insult