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TIL Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs.

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e07RD TIL in 2004 while searching the Paris Catacombs police discovered a cinema in one of the caverns. It was equipped with a giant screen, seats for the audience, a fully stocked bar, and a complete restaurant. The source of its electrical power and the identity of those responsible remain unknown
e0pNE TIL that the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they're too afraid to drive themselves. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year
nWd1G TIL Japan has been the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the Moon
x6K4o TIL that while Nobody Beats the Wiz was indeed an actual electronics chain in the northeast, the Seinfeld character was not in their real-life commercials. The Seinfeld character was based on Crazy Eddie, another northeast electronics chain.
p8XWe TIL the "X" in "Xmas" comes from the Greek letter "Chi".