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TIL Hyenas are phylogenetically closer to cats than to dogs

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epKJ4 TIL The F150 is the ninth most popular vehicle in the world, despite having virtually no sales outside the US. The only other American cars in the top ten are Teslas, which sell world-wide.
8eKA8 TIL the Gestapo compiled a "Black Book" listing prominent residents of Great Britain to be rounded up after a successful invasion. In addition to obvious names like Churchill, the Nazis set their sights on Bertrand Russell and Virginia Woolf.
xVLE7 TIL During the Irish famine, about a million people died and another million emigrated, causing the Island's population to drop by about 20-25 percent.
JYEL4 TIL the stocks and pillory were in use in Delaware until 1905 and they had a whipping post until 1972.
yVLPv TIL Babe Ruth became a shirtmaker as a teenager while attending a reformatory/orphanage. Even during his baseball career, he adjusted his own shirt collars, rather than have a tailor do it