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TIL Cats have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species

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b69EQ TIL that Tennessee's has a state artifcat - the Mississippian stone statue, a statue of a kneeling man carved by an unknown Native American artist between 1250-1350. It was discovered in Wilson County in 1939.
nWroW TIL James Joseph Dresnok, a U.S. Army Soldier during the Korean War, defected to North Korea in 1962 and lived there until his death in 2016
4ZEX TIL Discovery Channel aired a show in which people wanting to learn more about home security had their houses robbed by the show hosts.
PYMKn TIL that every Canadian citizen in Canada can vote, including convicts and persons diagnosed with mental illness, with one exception - the Chief Electoral Officer.
jNkEN TIL: In 1918 over 200,000 people flooded the streets of Philadelphia for a parade during a pandemic, killing more than 12,000.