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TIL that most cats are lactose intolerant

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X0XZR TIL that we've had beds for over 200,000 years!
epvw4 TIL in 1945, the State Department commissioned an official Spanish version of the American National Anthem
kJjjd TIL that Rollerskate Skinny (Irish shoegaze band) and Rollerskate Skinny (song by Old 97's) got their names from Holden Caulfield's description of "Phoebe" from The Catcher in the Rye
DJdj TIL of “hitchBOT”, a hitchhiking robot created as a social experiment and designed to be a robotic travelling companion. It successfully hitchhiked across Canada in 2014, but met its demise in 2015 while attempting to cross the United States, as the robot was decapitated & vandalized in Philadelphia
vA7K TIL the often-quoted idiom “seeing is believing” leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”