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TIL that sauerkraut is not actually German and is instead thought to have originated somewhere in Mongolia.

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vWE4 TIL the US tried to make cat guided bombs during WWII to hit enemy ships. The hope was that the cat would see the ship as “dry land” and steer the bomb to the target, in an effort to avoid getting wet. The project was abandoned because the cats would lose consciousness in the low G conditions.
YNoB TIL Young elephants in Uganda ‘appear’ to have engaged in revenge attacks on villages, a study mentioned suggests 'a lack of older bulls to lead by example had created gangs of aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species’
R7BD1 TIL that Joan d'Arc was tried, condemned and burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church in May, 1430 . In the 1456 the very same church debunked her charges and denoted her as a martyr. Finally, in 1920 she was canonised and became a patron saint of France.
wow7 TIL the show Reno 911 was mainly improv and had very little scripting.
v1MkB TIL football, baseball, basketball and hockey were all invented by Canadians.