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TIL Cats domesticated themselves. They existed unchanged until the Middle Ages; and even now are genetically extremely close to their ancestors.

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p8DG4 TIL of the sitdown strike from 36’-37’ which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. Costing GM close to 3 billion in today’s market
KyLQ TIL that the Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army is a penguin called Sir Nils Olav
prvG TIL the term “meme” was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins as a method of explaining how cultural traits are passed on and popularized
Bgbgy TIL the Lamport logical timestamp algorithm is used to determine order of events on distributed computer systems.
dDDA9 TIL about Malaga Island, a mixed race community off the coast of Maine that was forcibly depopulated in 1912.