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TIL about the Cat Gap, a 7 million-year period from 18.5 million to 25 million years ago when cats became rare or nonexistent in the fossil record in North America

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16BE7 TIL there is a kingdom within the Republic of Indonesia.
lj95 TIL Fred Phelps once posted the Onion article “‘98 Homosexual-Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal” on the Westboro Baptist Church website as proof that homosexuals were trying to recruit others.
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obQA TIL In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
D17MJ TIL that in 2005 an art collector had Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to sell his twenty million dollar collection.