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TIL that the first cloned cat was named CC, short for "CopyCat" or "Carbon Copy". She was cloned in 2001 by scientists at Texas A&M University in conjunction with Genetic Savings & Clone Inc.

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b9WW0 TIL Towards the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. started to reconsider his fight for Integration and even said "I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house"
e0N5J TIL King Edward VII of England had a special sex chair made so that he could comfortably take part in threesomes at his favorite brothel in Paris. [NSFW].
WkK0X TIL in 1996 the Argentine branch of Coca Cola announced they would give away free tickets to a Ramones concert in exchange for ten bottle caps. Massively underestimating the band’s appeal in Argentina, Coca Cola didn’t have enough tickets available, resulting in riots and looting
WNK9 [TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress
6EDN7 TIL the York Peppermint Patty was created by Henry Kessler at his York Cone Company in 1940, located in York, Pennsylvania. They are now manufactured in Mexico.