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TIL Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was kicked out of the American Library Association for constant unwelcome advances towards women librarians.

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X0nxR TIL there’s a syndrome that happens when some people get to Paris due to the level of disappointment felt.
R5ga4 TIL the Ancient Egyptians had an annual "feast of drunkenness" commemorating the time humanity was saved by beer
78gRX TIL that, in 2011, researchers at the Mayo Clinic created cats that would give off a green glow under ultraviolet light. The goal was not to fluoresce cats, but to track the progress of gene modification while searching for a treatment for Feline AIDS.
m1NnR TIL that Eddie Futch (who trained four boxers who all beat Muhammad Ali) got Fraizer to win, by waiting till Ali threw an uppercut, and then countering with a left hook.
oB1vL TIL Russia and the United States are only 2 miles apart, and during the winter, you can walk between the two nations. There have been proposals to built highways and high-speed rail connecting Asia and North America the Bering Strait.