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TIL that a hyena is genetically closer related to cats than to dogs

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vN74 TIL all of the tin produced in the US is recycled. The United States has neither mined tin since 1993 nor smelted tin since 1989, but it was the largest secondary producer, recycling nearly 14,000 tonnes in 2006.
VBLX4 TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans
v7d8 TIL that a gene mutation allows a very small number of people to naturally sleep four hours per night, with no effects on mental or physical health. This would be evolution.
9YwBD TIL of a city in Peru called Iquitos. It's the largest city in the world where you can't access by road. The only way to get there is by plane or boat.
Meke8 TIL in one of Robin William’s last films, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, his character Henry stated that his tombstone would read "1951-2014”. Coincidentally, Robin Williams was born in 1951, and died in 2014.