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TIL cutting off a portion of an ear is the universal sign of a neutered feral cat.

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J80v TIL Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
JYx41 TIL that an uprising occurred in Romania in 1974, after they ran out of "Columbo" episodes, Peter Falk (who played the titular character) was reached out to by their government, so that the movement would quell, and he informed the people that more episodes would get made
OoKX7 TIL minors will no longer be able to buy sodas and potatoes chips in Oaxaca, a state of Mexico
GYNJQ TIL that it was only in 1968 that the Navajo Code Talker program was declassified, and until then the US and not even the Code Talkers own family members had any idea what a big contribution they had made to victory in the Pacific theater during WWII
JY4ok TIL that after its infamous explosion in 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant reported a fire in 1991; and it wasn’t until the year 2000 that the power station was fully shut down.