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TIL That Cadbury Chocolate Has a Football Team

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neVdW TIL Ray Bradbury took 9 days to write his novella, The Firemen, in the basement of a UCLA library on a typewriter rented for 10¢/30 minutes. After being urged by his publisher, he returned to the basement, got to work, and expanded his novella into Fahrenheit 451, which also took 9 days to write
NMJE TIL Muhammad Ali gave his first Olympic medal to a high school teacher who previously said “ you ain’t never gonna be nuthin’”
E1ww0 TIL about George McJunkin, a former slave and self educated geologist, who discovered the remains of an ancient bison that had been killed by humans in New Mexico. This discovery is the basis for our current timeline of when humans migrated to the Americas.
v1Brx TIL that cats only learnt to 'meow' for humans. Cats naturally communicate mostly through scent, then through facial expression, complex body language and touch.
LQMKP TIL that the Greeks had a word for something like gaslighting: eristic arguments.