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TIL Broccolini was developed in the 1990’s
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TIL that Sirius B, the smaller star of the Sirius binary system, has a little more mass than the Sun while being slightly smaller than the Earth.
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TIL The NYC Great Cat Massacre: In 1916 the fear that pet cats were responsible for the polio epidemic led to the killing of 72,000 cats and 8,000 dogs in New York City.
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TIL of a tree that grows 40 different fruits
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TIL: about the massacre of Kalavryta, where occupying German soldiers massacred an entire village for the death of 78 prisoners of war that had been captured by Greek guerrillas. Only 13 men survived, and one lone Austrian soldier saved the most of the women from being burned alive. 693 people died.
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TIL While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. The disappearance of cats is believed to have helped rats spread Bubonic plague or black death.