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

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a8WwM TIL that in the original Polynesian myth, Māui dies after transforming into a worm and entering the vagina of the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō, who crushes him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina.
BggpW TIL Seth Macfarlane missed being on AA Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center because he was hung over.
yV5mX TIL one major concern of establishing human settlements on Mars is pregnancy. It is likely that members of craft may engage in sex due to their stressful and isolated environment, and it is still not fully known how the environment in a spacecraft would affect the development of a child aboard.
ONWL TIL that Volvo plans for no one to be killed or seriously injured in one of their new cars by 2020.
ADdEa TIL Justin Yifu Lin, a former Taiwanese military officer who defected to Mainland China in 1979 to pursue his ambitions. He studied at Peking University and the University of Chicago, became Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. Now, he is still a wanted criminal of taiwan.