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TIL that the tufts of fur that grow inside a cat’s ears are called furnishings

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KYvEQ TIL that 1941 movie Citizen Kane had a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes until a negative review from when the movie came out was discovered in 2021
JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.
MeKGm TIL that in 1885 Chief Sitting Bull spent four months playing himself in reconstructions of Custer’s Last Stand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Historians are divided as to whether he cursed the audiences in the Lakota language during his performance.
40ww TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.
vpnL TIL that the current mayor of Davao city, Phillipines is noted for transforming the city from the murder capital of the nation to “the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia” through vigilante means and toleration of extrajudicial killings of alleged criminals. Time magazine dubbed him “The Punisher”.