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TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 years and 3 days - 1967 to 2005.

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67MW TIL there is an insect of the size of a human hand called Tree Lobster, and it can only be found in Ball’s Pyramid, in Australia.
0dX1j Today I learned that General Mills, the cereal company, used to have an electronics division that, in 1953, created the “black box” found in today’s airplanes.
rNmO1 TIL that the streets in Hollister, California are slowly moving apart due to the creeping Calaveras fault
OWJR TIL that the East India Trading Company once had a private army of 260,000. Double that of the British Army. It also once accounted for half of the world’s trade.
rRLRd TIL that Bangladesh, despite being the 8th most populous country in the world (ahead of Russia, Mexico, and Japan), is smaller than Oman, New Zealand, or Uruguay, and is by far the most densely populated country that isn't a city-state