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

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QXwE TIL that a war refugee from Montenegro came to New York and began working at Columbia University as a janitor. He used Columbia’s tuition remission for employees to earn a bachelor’s degree in classics. It took him twelve years.
e0GKD TIL Bear Grylls survived a free fall from 16,000 feet after his parachute failed to deploy
VM44G TIL, The Band AC/DC is referred to as "Accadacca" in their home country of Australia
VBEjm Today I learned that filberts (which I grew up enjoying) and hazelnuts (which I thought I'd never tried) are the same thing (and in the UK, they're called cobnuts).
b6kmE TIL that in Yukon, Canada, there is a "desert" between mountains and forests. Despite the name, scientifically is not a desert in the traditional sense, are dunes created by glaciers 24,000 years ago, but locals nickname the place as "the world smallest desert".