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TIL that hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs.
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TIL about anti ninja floors in Japan. They were purposefully made to squeak as to alert people of intruders.
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TIL that polar bears are nearly invisible to Infrared photography
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TIL Umetaro Suzuki extracted thiamine (which he named Aberic Acid) from rice bran in 1910 but his paper on the subject was poorly translated and ultimately ignored in the West. In 1912 Kazimierz Funk extracted the same substance and named it Vitamine.
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TIL that whenever 9th Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was absent from his plantation, Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman who was also his common-law wife, was put in charge of managing the entire plantation. All workers on the property were to obey her, even white employees.
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TIL a lawyer used his will for practical jokes. He gave a house to 3 men who hated each other, stocks in a brewery to preachers, shares of a racetrack to each ministers "except Spracklin, who shot a hotelkeeper", and gave the rest to whoever had the most kids in 10 years.