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TIL that domestic cats are responsible for the extinction or near extinction of dozens of species.

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lojo7 TIL That only 14 years after almost the entire Choctaw population was forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears, the tribe donated $170 (over $5,000 today) to victims of the Potato Famine in Ireland, creating a bond between the two peoples that lasts to today.
NjwP TIL (When looking back at how big France has played apart in American history) Congress wore black and mourning badges for 30 days after Lafayette’s death, the same treatment Washington got.
yQdZe TIL that you couldn't take a calculus classes when Harvard started because calculus hadn't been formally discovered yet.
wLk1Y TIL if a service dog approaches you without it’s owner, the owner is down or in need of help.
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects