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TIL The mile was originally 5000 feet, until Parliament changed it in 1592 to match up with eight furlongs.

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LDMP TIL that a married couple in Bosnia started cheating in online chatrooms. When they decided to meet in person, they realized they had been cheating on each other–with each other.
9YgND TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.
K1v4 TIL The White House didn’t have a 4th of July celebration until 1801. Cherokee chiefs were invited and cock fighting was part of the celebration.
R7gGQ TIL 99.6% of all animals used and killed by humans in the U.S. are farmed animals
OG81X TIL the man invented revolving doors in the US did so because he was tired of being chivalrous and holding doors for women