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TIL there is an official Alamo cat 🐈.

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Vv1G TIL: The Abrahamic religions have Polytheistic origins, and Yahweh was originally a God of War
jNOOa TIL that maybe I can trick the YouTube Algorithm.
kJpOB TIL that nearly 1 billion birds die annually in the US due to window collisions.
mxj9o TIL that Dr. Barry Marshall was convinced that H.pylori bacteria causes stomach ulcers, but no one believed him. Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself, developed ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics and went on to win the Nobel prize.
dD579 TIL the homochirality of biological molecules is exclusively a feature of life on Earth. Extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds, and common organic syntheses always yield racemic mixtures. It is not known to science why that is the case.