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TIL That Historians Believe Cats Domesticated Themselves

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K0EQ TIL Jesus personally said not to stand on street corners and in synagogues (churches) and pray, because only hypocrites do that and then only to get attention. (Matthew 6:6)
wLWR1 TIL Robert De Niro was originally cast in the lead role in Big, a movie where a child is turned into an adult, before he dropped out and was replaced by Tom Hanks
mx9jP TIL That there are no A and B batteries because they simply quit selling as they didn't fit into the growing consumer electronics business needs after World War I
pZQ4 TIL That in New Jersey, people convicted of drunk driving are banned from using vanity plates.
6a7Y TIL North Korea built a fake village with empty buildings lit by automatic timers in an effort to lure South Koreans to defect across the border.