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TIL New Zealand has a cat killing contest, with price money.

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7nb TIL: The fiddle song featured in Ken Burns’ The Civil War was not a Civil War song at all, but “a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy in the Bronx” in the eighties.
J161Q TIL that Alcuin of York, an 8th century English scholar, has been credited as inventor of the first question mark.
k9dd TIL the animation segment in Bowling for Columbine that followed Matt Stone’s interview was made to look like it was by the South Park creators, which angered them and led to Michael Moore being parodied in Team America: World Police
kAMW TIL the film ‘Back to the Future’ provides the OED’s earliest recorded example of a colloquial sense of ‘hello’, used to imply (sometimes disbelievingly or sarcastically) that the person addressed is not paying attention, has not understood something, or has said something nonsensical or foolish.
nlQP TIL The more educated a woman is, the more likely she is to drink heavily and report drinking problems.