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TIL that in 1960, some 14,000 cats were dropped by parachute over Borneo to combat a rat plague, and it worked!

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Me9A7 TIL that the planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica
9pMX TIL in 1861 there was 45 straight days of rain in California, creating a lake 300 miles long and 20 miles wide in the Central Valley and an inland sea in Orange County.
D1OyY TIL about the volcano that created Bermuda is unlike any on Earth. Also that Bermuda was created by a volcano.
JYnXl TIL in the Ancient Greek Olympics, competitors found cheating were fined. The money would pay for a statue of Zeus with a plaque shaming the offender, and placed on the road to the stadium.
N7Bbe TIL that the Mona Lisa was not widely known until it was stolen by a man named Vincenzo Peruggia in 1911 and recovered three years later