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TIL Hyenas are phylogenetically closer to cats than to dogs

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WkEr4 TIL Manchester United's academy dressing room has a picture of Leo Messi cleaning his own boots to make sure the young players understand the importance of humility
b9v4j TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger pays Warner Brothers $1 a year to keep his Mr. Freeze costume
KgJ9 TIL that the first thing sold on the internet was a bag of marijuana between M.I.T. and Stanford using Arpanet accounts.
EgnPP TIL - The Simpsons episode where "Burns Slant-Drilling Co." steals the school's oil is rooted in actual events, such as the East Texas "slant-hole scandal" where an estimated $100 million worth of oil was stolen over several decades from legal owners
99Pp TIL that those clouds that look like fish skin/scales are a pretty reliable indicator of a change in weather (often rain) in the next 6-12 hours