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TIL the name for “fear of cats” is “ailurophobia” and “felinophobia.” Why? Because “airluros” was what Greeks called Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess.

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0dP1p TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"
PYGEV TIL movie theatres charge high prices for popcorn/soda/candy because they only receive a very very small percentage of the actual ticket price. Therefore, they are often forced to make money in other ways to stay afloat.
R5eNQ TIL that in 1966, Charles DeGaulle ordered the removal of 70,000 US soldiers and their families in France which resulted in the the largest peacetime exercise of transportation by land, sea, and air the U.S. military had ever undertaken
97YB TIL that the entire staff of Australian radio station Triple J went on strike to protest the censoring of the N.W.A song ‘Fuck tha Police". As one final protest before they left they put N.W.A’s 'Express Yourself’ on repeat. It played for 24 hours straight.
wLZ0J TIL that the story of how the Daddy Long Legs is one of the most venomous spiders in the world, but that it lacks big enough fangs to bite is false three times. It’s fangs are as long as a recluse, they lack venom, and they are Harvestmen, not even spiders.