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TIL cats show you their butthole as a way of telling you they’re comfortable with you.

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yQnmp TIL of Charles Ramsey, a Cleveland man who was key in the rescue of 3 women & a child from over a decade of captivity in a neighbor's home. When word got out he was eating a Big Mac when he heard a woman's cries for help, over a dozen Ohio restaurants pledged to offer him a free burger anytime.
nAor TIL during the Vietnam War Hugh Thompson Jr. order his men to turn their guns on American soldiers to protect Vietnamese civilians and helped put a stop to the My Lai Massacre.
R6p7 TIL the Great Extinction that wiped out most life 65.5 million years ago was precipitated by 5 degree C warming over 1000 years. This rate is 10 times slower than that of the last 100 years.
Z815v TIL an American woman needed her husband's permission to open a bank account as recently as the 1960s
OGnDe TIL, for the 2024 Solar Eclipse 28 of 50 US States have at least 1 state park with >90% Totality