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TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.

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rlld TIL: Gold medals on 2014 olympics will have bits of russian meteorite
9YQN6 TIL of Eric Lomax, a British ex-POW who was captured in 1942 by Japanese forces. Many years after the war, he tracked down the Japanese man who had tortured him, and forgave him.
xVZGk TIL KFC only became a success in Japan after a junior store manager lied about whether Kentucky Fried Chicken was a staple of American Christmas
MeyG0 TIL that the word "guys" actually originated from Guy Fawkes' name, and was used earlier to refer to men of the lowest and depraved kind.
rGXo TIL a huge, tracked vehicle was used in warfare in the mid 1800’s. It was called “The Megatherium war horse”.