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TIL that the word “cat” is so old that it can be traced all the way to the Late Egyptian “čaute”.

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kgkg TIL of Tanya Savicheva, a young Russian girl who kept a diary through the siege of Leningrad. The last entry is “All Savichevs died. Now remains only Tanya.” Tanya later died as well.
kJllE TIL in 1969 North Korea shot down a US surveillance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board and that the US did not retaliate at all.
v1yW7 TIL that in the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey, a quota system limits students of any one country or linguistic region (e.g. English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries) to 10% of the school’s total population, which results in the 450 students coming from over 70 countries
5ZG9 TIL Orville Wright lived until 1948, and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation. He witnessed the creation of the first rocket and jet propulsion.
VMJj0 TIL that 17 years before Confederate General James Longstreet surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, he stood as a groomsman in Grant's wedding. At the surrender, they embraced and reminisced about "the days that were so pleasant."