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TIL 99.9% of calico cats are female due to the X chromosome.

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0d8dL TIL of Jeremiah Haralson, a former slave and a Republican congressman during Reconstruction, actually endorsed Horatio Seymour, the 1868 Democratic presidential candidate. Nevertheless, he would later support Grant's re-election in 1872.
78Olp TIL the U.S. was almost a "socialist" country.
WkXLd TIL about Katherine Young, one of the oldest known Internet users.
oLGo TIL of the Ashley Treatment. A hormonal and sometimes surgical way to keep a cognitively and physically impaired individual the size of a child for ease of care.
OGJ16 TIL that tie dye is very old and was independently created in China, Japan, pre Colombian Peru, and India almost two thousand years ago