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TIL that there is a cat version of HIV called FIV

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GYll7 TIL a black lab named Eclipse is a regular solo rider to a nearby dog park with her bus pass attached to her harness. Her owner meets her there.
W9mY TIL that after the French Revolution, France used a simplified decimal time and calendar system for 13 years which had 10 hours a day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute.
GAK4j TIL about “The Slash”, a man-made 6.1m wide and 2,171km long track of deforestation that demarcates portions of the border between Canada and the U.S.
RN8 TIL the Molotov Cocktail is not Russian, despite the obvious Russian name. The petrol bomb was mass produced by the Finnish in the Winter War, and the term itself was coined to mock Soviet propaganda.
awPY0 TIL that a large part of the hanging gardens of Babylon were destroyed in order to build a parking lot and helicopter landing zone