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TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft

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m1KOO TIL in 1972 a meteor grazed the earth atmosphere and in doing so changes its trajectory, scientist predicted the meteor would come back to earth in 1997 but never did, so the object's trajectory and position remains unknown.
X0G0D TIL that a single Spongebob episode takes around 9-11 months to produce.
9wvNB TIL: Natural gas has no odor. Gas companies add a harmless chemical called mercaptan to give it its distinctive “rotten egg” smell.
M5e7 TIL when Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds”, Diogenes brought a plucked chicken into Plato’s classroom, saying “Behold! I’ve brought you a man!”. After the incident, Plato added “with broad flat nails” to his definition.
8adKV TIL that EU citizen can demand a copy of all personal data that companies hold about them. However, more than one year after implementation of the new law, most Android and iPhone apps still completely ignore this right, a study has found.