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TIL that most cats are lactose intolerant

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1DlW TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.
1o6D TIL that Vikings liked to be clean and sported “neat beards and reverse mullets”
JYavV TIL that up to 25 percent of cowboys in the West during the later 19th century were black. Former slaves or born into a formerly enslaved family, they worked in an industry that despite facing inevitable racism was a generally less discriminatory than other industries at the time.
rNWOx TIL To ensure the survival of a small group of U.S. servicemen stationed on Alaska's remote St. Matthew Island during World War II, the Coast Guard released 29 reindeer to the island. After the war the reindeer population exploded to more than 600 by 1963. By 1964 they were all gone.
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus