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TIL: Cats are believed to be responsible for the extinction of 33 species of animals.

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84xK TIL scientist Craig Venter created a cell with the smallest genome of any known (independent) organism. With 473 genes, the cell is a milestone to reduce life to its bare essentials and to design life from scratch.
KO9oB TIL 50% of bankruptcies are caused by health problems in the US.
EgOp TIL that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy in 4 billion years
oRjpK TIL The Code of Hammurabi, written by the sixth king of Babylonia Hammurabi, is one of the oldest surviving legal texts outlining crimes and their various punishments. It was discovered in 1901 in Persia by French archeologist Jacques de Morgan.
QNJd9 TIL that the Pentagon still runs many of their computers with Windows 95