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TIL Cats spend 70% of their lives sleeping.

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8eanV TIL that at the height of its power the Hudson’s Bay Company claimed eight million square kilometres in North America as its own and even had its own currency called "Made Beaver" (it valued goods by placing them against the standard of one prime beaver pelt)
9Yr6m TIL John Quincy Adams (6th US President) was a 'hollow earther' and wanted to meet 'the mole people'. He authorized an expedition to find them.
8eOBG TIL the New Jersey Reds (now Washington Generals) once beat the Harlem Globetrotters. The Globetrotters weren't paying attention to the time and had to finish the match playing normal basketball.
knB TIL that in a kingdom in India it was illegal for women to cover their breasts until the 19th century.
gRa4 TIL the famously anti-gay Harlem preacher Pastor Manning, who’s known for vitriolic anti-LGBT hate speech, is in massive debt. An organization that provides shelter for homeless LGBT youth is raising money to buy the building his church is housed in to open an additional shelter at that location.