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TIL that before the 1800s, people used to burn cats to death for entertainment in Europe

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9YJw6 TIL about the town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch in Wales. It's name means roughly "St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels over against the pool of St Tysilio of the red cave".
41Wa TIL according to a Chinese legend, music was invented in 2697 B.C., when the Emperor Huang Ti send Ling Lun to cut bamboo poles that would produce a sound matching the call of a phoenix bird.
p8wx8 TIL that Balto, the sled dog who delivered lifesaving diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, was present for the unveiling of his own statue in Central Park!
ZE8a TIL that in the ‘90s a batch of pencils by the Bureau for At-Risk-Youth with the slogan “Too Cool To Do Drugs” were recalled for saying “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs” as they were sharpened.
b9dgQ TIL that Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the United States Government. When the reburial corps in the late 1860s found remains on battlefields, they'd remove the Union soldiers and leave the Confederates.