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TIL the USSR tried to domesticate moose for use in a Communist cavalry.

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Wnno TIL Hurricane Katrina caused an 85 percent reduction in the amount of babies named Katrina
lAd5 TIL in Scotland, a group of students went to a modern arts gallery and left a pineapple in an empty exhibit to see if people would think it was art. When they returned four days later, not only was the pineapple was still there, it had been covered with a glass case
v0p8 TIL The site where Julius Caesar was assassinated by the Roman senate in 44 BC is now a no-kill shelter for homeless cats
QO4X TIL people with Alzheimers or Dementia can have moments of complete lucidity and ‘return to their old self’ moments before dying.
XE47P TIL the name Scotch Tape comes from a racial stereotype that Scottish people are cheap. When a painter was testing the product, he complained that the makers were “Scotch” with the amount adhesive on the tape.