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TIL The Vikings are responsible for the widespread populace of domestic felines across the world, as they were used for mousing on Viking ships throughout history.

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YpwJG TIL of the Canal of the Pharaohs. A canal that linked the Red Sea to the Mediterranean 2,000 years before the Suez was built.
8aLM4 TIL why "w" is pronounced double-u. The Roman alphabet did not have the letter"w" so when Latin was first used in Old English, they needed to invent a symbol for the sound made by "w" - so they made it "uu" (there was no "v" in Old English). 400 years later, Norman scribes conjoined it to become "w"
dnmd TIL the biggest lobster ever documented was in 1977- 44 lb, almost 4 feet long, and estimated to be as old as 100 years. Records show lobsters reached as big as 6 feet during colonial times!
MeY7W TIL the difference between acronyms and initialisms. FBI is not an acronym but an initialism.
oBlLE TIL less than 7 percent of people have a negative blood type