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TIL people occasionally find containers of butter in peat bogs that are hundreds of years old

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LlW0 TIL Cats can get addicted to chasing the red light causing behavior problems. They will just constantly chase around a light or shadow and pounce upon it. They just spend their whole lives wishing and waiting
Yp1kx TIL there were proposals in the 17th century to use an inverted exclamation point (¡) to signify irony in a sentence, a simpler version of the internet’s “/s” for sarcasm
ANrDd TIL that the longest musical performance in history is being held in a church in Germany, and it's set to last 639 years. The piece, "As Slow As Possible" by John Cage, began in 2001 and will end in 2640.
PYxoe TIL Erik the Red was a Viking who was exiled from Norway for murder so he moved to Iceland but again was exiled for murder. So he took 500 men & women, founded Greenland, & declared himself chieftain.
D1kde TIL of the Alpheidae AKA pistol shrimp, that is one of the loudest animal in the sea and produces a bubble that when collapses reaches temperatures of over 7,700 °C