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TIL that domestic cats instinctively don’t want to drink from the water bowl next to their food, and therefore seek it out first elsewhere in the house, because in the wild any water next to their kill might be contaminated.

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j6Ekn TIL that a meteor strike in a very isolated area of Siberia in 1908 flattened 830 miles of forest. It is the largest meteor strike ever recorded, it was called the Tunguska Event.
vyp7 TIL The Tyrannosaurus Rex Lived closer in Time to the Moon Landing than it did to living with the Stegosaurus
OY7X TIL, Mr. Rodgers’ car was once stolen and when the thief realized whose car it was he returned it and left an apology message!
yQprv TIL a small-scale nuclear war with each side using 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs would disrupt the global climate for a decade. The result would be 5 million metric tons of soot released into the stratosphere & up to 70% loss of the ozone layer.
4XOmo Researchers have created a llama-inspired mega protein capable of neutralizing 59 different strains of influenza.