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TIL House cats are more closely related to Walruses than Aardvarks are to any other animal alive on the Earth today

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xVNK0 TIL the phrase "Beam me up Scotty" has never appeared in a single episode of Star Trek
8YaX TIL: The inauguration of US president Andrew Jackson was an open party at the white house. The public got drunk and trashed the place, and could only be removed by tempting them out with bowls of punch on the lawn outside.
N7lPE TIL that a permit was denied for the production crew of "The Sopranos" to film the episode "Pine Barrens" at South Mountain Reservation by Essex County, New Jersey Executive James Treffinger, due to the show depicting Italians as corrupt, Treffinger was later convicted and imprisoned for corruption
a8YMM TIL the French car Renault 5 was marketed in the United States by the name Le Car.
9wERG TIL that after reading Rutherford’s paper on atomic disintegration, Henry Adams wrote in 1902 : “At this rate, thought will be overturned; law replaced by force [...] explosives will reach cosmic violence.” Less than 50 years later, the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico, July 16, 1945.