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TIL Cats domesticated themselves 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.

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gr9GL TIL in the wake of 9/11, there were more antisemitic hate attacks than anti-Muslim attacks.
6Qpw TIL Canada and Spain almost fought a war against each other in … 1994
dDNmE TIL Costa Concordia rescuers had to to do a 3 days training in the mountains to learn how to endure the tilt shift of the boat for rescue efforts
pYwrN TIL about the Union Army Balloon Corps, a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, hydrogen balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.
wLXWM TIL a man worked at the restaurant at the top of WTC. After 9/11, they never saw him again and presumed he died in the towers. In 2003, the government removed his name from the 9/11 memorial — he might have used the tragedy to start a new life without telling his family.