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TIL that cats show you their butt to “politely open themselves up to a sniff” as a way of showing they comfortable with you.

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v88x TIL David Bowie kept a fur-covered pit in his living room for orgies.
E1Ak7 TIL that Sherpa is not an occupation or job title but rather the name of a Tibetan ethnic group
VBQ4Q TIL traces of 13,000-year-old beer were found in 2018 marking the earliest known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples. The discovery also marks the oldest record of human-made alcohol in the world.
WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
XPKE TIL that the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 was responsible for the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to September 11, 2001