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TIL outdoor roaming domestic cats kill an estimated 14.7 billion birds and mammals every year in the US. The majority of birds killed are native and the majority of mammals killed in suburban and rural areas are native

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yQwXp TIL The melody of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", the "Alphabet Song", and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" was not composed by Mozart when he was 5 years old; it was already a popular French folk song when he composed a series of variations on the tune at 25 or 26 years old.
N78e8 TIL Gymnasium is ultimately derived from gymnos meaning naked, by way of the related verb gymnazo, whose meaning is "to train naked".
gG6b TIL Stanford & Harvard grads have built more $1Bn businesses than grads of the 10 next-best universities combined.
X0oQE TIL the same amount of time has passed between the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the 1930's/1940's movie serial style it is based on is the same as the amount of time between the release of Raiders and 2023. (42 Years).
ADlZB TIL that Rob Paulsen, the voice of Yakko from Animaniacs, recorded the "Countries of the World" song is a single take.