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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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jNoOX TIL since the Middle Ages a "knacker man" was a person responsible for the removal of animal carcasses from private farms or public highways and rendering the collected carcasses into by-products. It was considered a disreputable occupation. They were also commissioned by the courts as executioners.
v1yE7 TIL For as much as popular words and phrases go in and out of style, swear words have remained mostly unchanged for hundreds of years.
oNJY TIL there is a Cat Island.
epdv4 TIL that a 'needs repair' US supercomputer with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM was won via auction by a winning bid of $480,085.00.
rN0Rx TIL the reason that Mike Myers ended up playing the Cat in the Hat was because he was sued after cancelling on a prior project. He settled, and one of the terms of the agreement in the settlement was he would take a lead in another film by director Bo Welch, who ended up directing The Cat in the Hat