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TIL Egyptians ‘created’ modern cats through selective breeding, choosing the most sociable to keep mating

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VOrG TIL that ounce for ounce, corn flakes cereal has more salt in it than potato chips
Y7LRG TIL that the pound sign £ is a stylised L, from the Latin "libra pondo" (a Roman unit of weight). The reason why it's called a "pound sterling" was because it was originally defined as the value of a pound of sterling silver.
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".
v1PeL TIL the Belgian national dish "les frites" was wrongly given the name "French Fries" by World War One American servicemen moving through Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium, creating confusion with the invention’s nationality.
X050k TIL A 2014 linguistics study on filler words found that 1) women use “um” ~22% more than men, 2) men say “uh” 250% more than women, & 3) men use filler words ~38% more than women