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TIL That cats love the smell of crushed ants

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ppMQ TIL the Bible’s story of Noah’s Ark is based on a 1st millennium Assyrian copy of a story known as the Epic of Gilgamesh. This story itself is over 4100 year old and is considered to be the earliest surviving great work of literature in human history.
WkWdX TIL that the 1978 Dodge Sportsman van disguised as an ambulance driven by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the movie 1981 "The Cannonball Run" was actually the real vehicle used by Brock Yates and Hal Needham in what was the final Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash held in 1979.
GAn94 TIL it's impossible to drive from North to South America because there are no roads between Panama and Colombia
6EjKl TIL, "Nosferatu" (1922) was nearly deleted from history because of copyright infringement
X5Br TIL A school in Tennessee enforced a policy to combat sagging pants. Low-riding students would get “Urkeled” by teachers, where teachers pull up their pants for them, sometimes securing the pants with zip ties.