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TIL hyenas are not dogs OR cats, but are so unique they have their own scientific family

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8QXG TIL that D.A.R.E., the education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, has dropped all mention of marijuana from its curriculum as of December 2012.
v4DL TIL turkeys got their name because the British thought they came from Turkey. Meanwhile, in Turkey, turkeys are called hindis because they thought turkeys came from India. In reality, they came from North America.
lPv1 TIL Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of artworks
YpOW7 TIL 84 percent of vegetarians go back to eating meat
694ZZ TIL Marie Curie gave away most of her Nobel Prize money, repaid the scholarship she received as a student as soon as she began working, and refrained from patenting the radiation-isolation process so that the scientific community would not have any trouble with continuing research.