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TIL that cats love olives because there's nepetalactone in it, the same chemical that's in catnip!

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4kpyX TIL In 2013, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, contributed a collection of Carl Sagan's personal documents to the Library of Congress. Sagan was a source of childhood inspiration for MacFarlane, which prompted MacFarlane's involvement in the Cosmos revival in 2014 and upcoming documentary
7r6gO TIL The U.S. Pentagon has more members of the military serving in marching bands than the State Department has career diplomats.
JYRV4 TIL: A Petersburg VA home is built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
b9xG4 TIL Actress Catherine Hickland, after her divorce from David Hasselhoff, married an actor named Michael Knight
a8eG0 TIL about the Greek philosopher Polybius, who wrote the "Doctrine of Anacyclosis". It describes the rise, fall, and reformation of civilizations, from his experieince with the fall of the Greek and rise of the Roman civilization