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TIL: That today (June 4th) is hug your cat day

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M7KYA TIL the Big Box store concept was pioneered by the Rhode Island based Ann & Hope retailer. The Kmart and Walmart founders, among others, borrowed features for their own stores.
b6JxQ TIL that the final straw for Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait was the Kuwaiti emir telling the Iraqi Foreign Minister his intention to turn "every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute" by ruining Iraq financially
wke7 TIL That estimates suggest that 40% of all humans to have ever existed have not lived beyond their first birthday.
6D98 TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.
XEBmD TIL The Black Death in Europe was largely caused by a Mongol army catapulting infected dead bodies at European settlers in the Crimea.