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TIL PETA (the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have themselves euthanized an estimated 85% of the animals they rescue

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MekVA TIL that the woman who discovered pulsars in the 1970s did not receive credit, and the Nobel prize went to her supervisor instead, a man who had originally dismissed her work.
0d7EM TIL there is a TWISTER MUSEUM!!!
4XpLN TIL top US government officials proposed committing acts of terror against US citizens in false flag attacks as a pretext to invade Cuba, before being denied by President Kennedy.
jNPyM TIL that when Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female recipient of a medical degree in the U.S., applied to Hobart College, the dean decided to hold a vote in the class she was applying to. If just one of the 150 male students objected, she would be rejected. All the 150 young men voted to accept her
go07 TIL that the municipal government of Paris passed a resolution to prohibit Tom Cruise from becoming an honorary citizen of the city.