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TIL in 1890, the British used ancient Egyptian mummified cats as ..fertilizers

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a8gpL TIL that a town in New York did not concede the Civil War and rejoin the Union until the 1940s.
dZ99 TIL That Mr. Rogers named the puppet “King Friday XIII” so that children would not be superstitious of friday the 13th, but instead look forward to it. That’s why they celebrate King Friday’s birthday every friday the 13th.
v8J4 TIL that McDonalds in Hong Kong will host a cheap McWedding for couples around $1200 and will provide food and drink for 50 people and an apple pie cake
ADjEx TIL the Jewish religion does not cook/eat meat and dairy together because it is considered cruel to cook an animal in the very milk that was meant to nourish it.
GAnm4 TIL After seeing its pork production decimated by flu outbreaks, farms across China have been investing billions of dollars into massive high-rise hog-raising facilities popularly known as pig hotels, with one hotel in the Southern China being 13 stories tall and meant to hold around 10,000 pigs.