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TIL Sharks existed before trees

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a7v0 TIL that in Saudia Arabia a wife is entitled to divorce her husband if he does not supply her with fresh coffee.
oRokL TIL at least 60% of english words come from latin directly or indirectly(from old french). Still english is not considered a romance language
m1gMY TIL Rick Rescorla, a Vietnam vet and 9/11 hero, evacuated 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees from the WTC after predicting such an attack years earlier. He saved nearly all of them, then went back to help more and died when the tower collapsed.
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.
0dG6A TIL, Anna Jarvis, who founded Mother's Day in 1908 (in America), passionately opposed its growing commercialization and eventually campaigned against the holiday.