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TIL there are funeral services for animals, and you can choose whether you want the Christian or Buddhism style of the funeral

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VBg44 TIL about the French astronomer (with the longest name I have ever seen) who twice travelled to India to observe the transit of Venus. He returned to a family that presumed him dead and was fighting over his estate.
R5Wbj TIL, Until the evolution of the printing press in the 15th century, use of modern numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), also called Arabic numerals, in Europe was mainly confined to Northern Italy.
QJ0M TIL old cats meow more because they have kitty Alzheimer’s
mkWo TIL that as a result of a 20-year-old online joke that the German city of Bielefield doesn’t actually exist, the city released a press statement titled ‘There Really is a Bielefeld!’. However as it was released on April 1st, this humorously only added to the conspiracy.
78A7O TIL A cow-bison hybrid is called a beefalo. The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.