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TIL The RAF dropped over 10,000 cats by parachute

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b9ML9 TIL about the highest-paid performer in the world in the 1910s: Scottish singer and comedian Sir Harry Lauder. He rose from being a coal miner singing in occasional town concerts to commanding over £12,000 per night. He was the first British artist to sell a million records.
1E07 TIL that both Disney and Nickelodeon own the rights to distribute episodes of Doug due to the creator’s contract stating that if Nick ended the series he could bring it elsewhere.
gM6X4 TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
JY6Kv TIL steam is an invisible gas. If you can see it, it’s not steam, it is condensation.
Z8evY TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.