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TIL that when a cat “head-butts” you, it’s called “bunting”

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W7MY9 TIL chocolate milk does not come from brown cows
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k7g TIL that pure gold is referred to as 24 carat because at one point a Roman gold coin used to weigh 24 carob seeds.
xWn0 TIL that James Buchanan, the 15th U.S. President, was morally opposed to slavery, but believed it was protected by the constitution, and so continuously brought slaves with his own money in order to free them
grMZL TIL that people in the Medieval era shared their bed with the entire family and even the occasional overnight visitor - only the very rich could afford more than one bed and poor people just slept on piles of cloth/hay on the floor.