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TIL Merle Hay died 100 years ago this month. likely the first American casualty of WW I.

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4XNZ5 TIL that cats and a few other pets (dogs, hamsters, rats) can experience seasonal allergies to pollen and grass, and some have year-round allergies to fleas and dust mites. In rare cases, cats can even be allergic to other pets and to HUMANS!
QNlgp TIL that by the late 90s, 80% of digital library catalogs ran on the PICK operating system, named after its developer Dick Pick.
69gDZ TIL in 1994, an entire Fantastic Four movie was made and never released, just so the studio didn’t lose the rights to the IP.
nWgeG TIL even though there are some ecological concerns about their numbers, hogsuckers are abundant and widely distributed to southern Canada and much of the eastern and southern United States
Brbd TIL there was a proposed NASA mission for 2016 to put the first extraterrestrial seafaring probe into one of Titan’s seas.