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TIL that cats (mainly female) bring you dead animals such as mice because they don’t think you could have caught one on your own, all to teach you their hunting wisdom under natural instinct

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GYlZ1 TIL Goats have accents and if you take two goats from different parts of the world they won’t be able to understand each other
RLR1 TIL they still make fruit-shaped Trix in Mexico!
Z8mMR TIL that on today's date, July 31st in 1703, Daniel Defoe was put up on a pillory for public humiliation for writing a satirical pamphlet. Instead of getting hit by fruit, he was pelted by flowers.
W7JwA Til that Eratosthenes, the Greek philosopher who was the first known person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, died aged 82 by voluntarily starving himself to death because he was going blind
Meabb TIL that squid fishers off the coast of Argentina use such enormous lights to attract squid that it shows up as brighter from space than most cities at night