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TIL Electric eels are not actually true eels at all and are more closely related to catfish.

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KOAa4 TIL: in 1860 there were more millionaires per capita in Lower Mississippi valley than anywhere else in the United States. At the same time the American slaves were worth somewhere around $3.5B making them the single biggest financial asset in the US.
WkBjA TIL Pope Gregory IX's association of cats with witchcraft led to the wholesale slaughter of the critters, and some scholars believe believe that by the 1300’s, Europe’s cat numbers were sufficiently depleted to prevent them from killing rats and mice, allowing the bubonic plague to spread.
e05M6 TIL that by shaking ketchup, you're actually making it thinner & easier to squeeze, instead of just moving it towards the cap. It's a non-Newtonian fluid & changes properties the more energy you give it! (That's often why more ends up on your plate than you planned)
X0DlE TIL 1960s Futurists Predicted a Shorter Work Week and a Senate Commitee thought by the year 2000 that we would be down to 14 hours a week for a full work week, and they used the show "The Jetsons", to showcase this
pbwN TIL Yurii is the Slavic form of the name George