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TIL the first cat to be cloned was named Copycat.

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n1eG TIL: Pantone 448 C, the “world’s ugliest color” according to research, is used by many European countries on their tobacco products to dissuade people from smoking.
6ELdm TIL by the end of WW2, the United States was spending $213,000,000 a day on the war effort; adjusted for inflation, that's over three billion dollars a day.
dDAo7 TIL that King Charles travels with a custom made toilet seat
kDd TIL American troops committed over 10,000 rapes in the space of just three months during the occupation of Japan
p8GOQ TIL of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy. His remains are the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. If any human evolves to such a point as to where they can no longer be described as being the same species as Carl's remains, they will no longer count as Homo Sapiens and will be a new species.