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TIL that Lynx cats became extinct in Britain approximately 1,300 years ago and there is now serious plans to re-introduce them to the wilds.

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KYE89 TIL there is an official Alamo cat 🐈.
mgVE TIL Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) lived long enough to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy
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5Y90P TIL that J. M. Barrie based the character of Peter Pan on his brother David. The reason Peter always stays the same age is because David drowned the day before his fourteenth birthday, and his family always remembered him as the boy who never grew up.