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TIL that cats display the same main attachment styles, as babies and dogs

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awj8A TIL Taiwan named its homegrown fighter jet F-CK-1 after the US was pressured by China not to sell them F-20 fighters.
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0wyML TIL that Henry Rathbone the military officer in attendance next to Abe Lincon the day he was assassinated ended up being admitted to an aslyum after killing his wife and attacking his children.
gMQ64 Today I learned there was a third US political party formed my Teddy Roosevelt called the Progressive Party. It was also known as the “bull moose party”
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