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TIL a lighthouse keeper’s cat named Tibbles is said to have single-handedly driven an entire species of wren into extinction, making the bird “the only known species on Earth to be entirely wiped out by a single being”.

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AQ1n TIL the abbreviated title “Mrs.” isn’t actually derived from the word “missus”, but rather from “mistress” instead. Addressing a woman as a mistress used to be considered a courtesy, until the term took on the less-dignified meaning we know it by today.
69R1W TIL, the 1996 Lake Huron Cyclone was a low pressure cyclonic storm which formed over Lake Huron in September of 1996.
mx8bx TIL of Genie Wiley, a girl who was raised in a dark isolated room with no indication of an outside world for the first 13 years of her life, her father was incredibly abusive, and when authorities rescued her she couldn't speak at all and only made infantile noises.
W7Xxo TIL - HOT Liver - song for memorization causes of Jaundice
j6gM TIL that during the 1940s the Soviet Union asked Coca Cola to produce a white, less American Coke