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TIL White cats can get sunburnt and may even need sunscreen

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v1EX7 TIL that German shoe companies Adidas and Puma were started by two brothers, who became business rivals after an argument drove them apart. They never spoke to each other again.
xVNwb TIL For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle. The area is next expected to become green in about 15,000 years, in 17,000 AD.
a8gaM TIL That Gerorges Lemaitre, the man who first theorized an expanding universe and Big Bang Theory, was also a priest, soldier, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at a university.
ANr1l TIL that, due to its short orbit around the sun (just 88 days), Mercury is, on average, the closest planet not only to Earth but to all the other planets in our Solar System as well.
5Nj8 TIL that Volkswagen was fined by the EPA for using “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests… in 1974, 41 years before the recent controversy over the same thing.