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TIL cats decided to live with humans on their own and domesticated themselves

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nLJo TIL That Detective John St. John (Jigsaw John), the man who caught William Bonin, The Freeway Killer, got a confession out of him by writing a fake letter from one of the victims’ mothers begging him to tell her what he did with her son.
gMLL4 TIL about the "Super Guppy," an oddly-shaped, massive plane designed for transporting really really large cargo (rocket parts). Five were built, and they look kind of like flying beluga whales.
4ZRb TIL that in pre-Christian Greek and Roman cultures, suicide was permitted, if not condoned, and often seen as an act of free will that could even be heroic.
Wkp7N TIL that in Colorado, the mile 420 sign on Interstate 70 got stolen so many times that it got replaced by a sign reading mile 419.99
4J0g TIL that the last country to go to war with Vietnam was China, in 1979. The Sino-Vietnamese War lasted 3 weeks and 6 days, and Chinese suffered more than 60,000 casualties.