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TIL that people tend to like dogs more than cats because dogs have evolved to have expressive eyebrows and are easier to ‘read’

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xVyXb TIL In four years at West Point, General Custer amassed a record-total of 726 demerits, one of the worst conduct records in the history of the academy, and finished at the bottom of his class
8bRV TIL that Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend a white school in the south, attended class by herself because parents of white students would not let them learn with her, and she ate only food she brought from home because a woman repeatedly threatened to poison her
aPJL TIL in the US nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011
MNN7 TIL that because blood only has a shelf life of approximately 42 days, after 9/11 and the flood of blood donations the Red Cross had to throw out all of the surplus blood, and experienced a shortage.
xVaOk TIL about a soccer ball that survived the Challenger disaster in 1986. 30 years later it finally reached space and flew in the ISS for 173 days and almost 3000 trips around the earth.