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TIL students uncovered a village in Canada that is 10,000 years older than the Pyramids

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mxK9P TIL in 1911, a "witchcat" appeared near Pottsville PA. It caused hens to crow like rooster and pigs to bark like dogs. Thomas Howell, the man who saw it, died along with eight cows and horses, the deaths attributed to a hex. The family crafted a golden bullet to shoot the cat and break the hex.
GYR7Q TIL after Robert Bork was rejected by Congress as a Supreme Court judge after a highly controversial set of confirmation hearings, "Bork" was added to the dictionary as a verb whose meaning is "To prevent a person from being appointed to public office by means of systemic vilification or defamation"
nWjlB TIL Author Kurt Vonnegut responded to a high school student’s letter with an “poetic assignment”
R7O8j TIL Christian radio host Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011. Followers gave up their jobs, sold their homes, and stopped investing in their children's college funds. On May 22, his office had a paper note in the window stating, "This office is closed. Sorry we missed you!"
wAAE TIL that chinese people used to think pandas were monsters.