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TIL that Jimmy Carter had a cat during his presidency named Misty Malarky Ying Yang.

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Ybvd TIL that some scientists believe we are in the middle of a mass extinction event (1 of 6 throughout the history of our planet) and that humans are primarily to blame.
a6ro TIL Johnny Depp has played guitar for Marilyn Manson, Oasis, and Aerosmith.
QJAXX TIL that for decades, anatomists and zoologists were confounded by the origin of whales. Then, at the end of the 20th century, a wealth of fossil finds provided a detailed outline of how hoofed land mammals became the sea’s largest swimmers.
kJV8g TIL that spending 76 minutes a day outside reduces a child’s chance of becoming short-sighted by 50%.
1jQW TIL a Royal Navy diver, also working for MI6, disappeared on an inspection of a Soviet Navy cruiser. A body was found without head and hands soon after.