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TIL: Cheetahs and Cougars aren’t related to the other big cats (Panthera). They’re apart of the Felinae family, related to the common house cat.

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Zp0XQ TIL that when Edwin Hunter McFarland could not fit all letters into the first Thai typewriter, he left out two consonants, which eventually led to their becoming obsolete.
BGYL TIL: Green olives and black olives are not different species. The distinction reflects whether they were picked before or after ripening.
ZpYvG TIL: in 1968, the US Navy proposed a 6,000 mile long underground antenna system that would have covered 40% of the state of Wisconsin. It needed 100 underground power plants and was supposed to survive nuclear attacks.
w6A7 TIL The Iron Snail, lives in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,500 metres deep, it is the only known gastropod with a suit of scale armour, the scales and the shell are mineralised with iron sulfide, these snails make a skeleton out of iron, it’s the only animal so far known to do so.
W64A TIL - On 9/22/1979 there was an unidentified nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean, and it is known as the Vela Incident