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TIL that cats can get acne on their chins

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6EnrQ TIL: the word "tycoon" is from the Japanese "taikun", meaning "great prince", and made the jump to English in the 1850s largely because it was used to describe Abraham Lincoln
7rjWP TIL waffle cones, reclining chairs, and playgrounds were all popularized in America as a result of the tuberculosis epidemic of the early 1900s.
d8AWd TIL: British author Agatha Christi absolutely detested her character Hercule Poirot, even going as far as to call him, "A detestable, bombastic, egocentric, little creep." She only kept writing books about his adventures at the behest of her editors, because they sold so well.
8a0rb TIL that a liter of surface seawater typically contains 100 billion viruses, most of them “unidentified and uncharacterized”
N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here: