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TIL that Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat door. He cut a hole in his door to let his cat in and out, inadvertently creating the first pet door.

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KOeQR TIL that there are 636,120 sets of symptoms that meet the current criteria for PTSD(if 4 "required" criteria are met).
W7vRB TIL that, on April 6, 1994, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were both assassinated when their plane was shot down. In Burundi, it was seen as a tragic accident and their president was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Rwanda, it set in motion the Rwandan Genocide.
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