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TIL there is a theory that question mark orignated from the shape of cat's tail when it is inquisitve.

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oByyL TIL when Jesse Owens broke the world record in the 200m dash in 1936, the second place runner—Mack Robinson, brother of baseball legend Jackie Robinson—also broke the previous world record. He worked as a middle school janitor the rest of his life afterward.
8apbP TIL Disneyland have cats called "cat members" who roam the park day and night keeping rodents away
GAveJ TIL that British military jets were used to bomb a stricken oil tanker in 1967 to burn the oil before it came to shore
VEXZ TIL that in the middle ages, devil fearing christians would massacre black cats, which carried the unintended consequence of increasing the rat population and the spread of the Black Death
XEkwQ TIL the reason why clocks run clockwise. They do because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadow