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TIL a cat's winter coat grows in due to shortened daylight hours and not due to temperatures dropping.

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ZDga TIL of Gregory W. Nemitz, a man who in 2000, registered land on the asteroid 433 Eros. The land contained $492 Quintilian worth of platinum. And, when NASA landed a probe on a place on the asteroid that he had called ‘Parking Space 29’, Nemitz sent NASA a $20 parking ticket.
eDyE TIL In WW2, when American GIs were stationed in Britain, they hated the racial equality in the UK, and would start fights with black British soldiers. Unable to abide the GIs’ racism, white British locals and soldiers would fight on the side of the blacks.
5brr TIL Washington Post’s movie critic said Groundhog Day would “never be designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.” In 2006, the film was designated a national film treasure by the Library of Congress.
l7nOA TIL of the funerary practice of hanging coffins by the extinct Bo people - ethnic minorities in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. About 100 of these wooden coffins were attached to stakes driven into the rock of a 600 meters high cliff.
8eepK TIL that in October 1990, the British tunnel worker Graham Fagg was the first person to cross the English channel by land since the Ice Age.