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TIL that Exxon’s CEO has been fighting to stop fracking activity near his Texas home

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ZAbR TIL Cats bring you dead animals not as a gift, rather because they think you don’t know how to hunt and want to teach you.
rNGee Today I learned that only 13% of the UAE's population consists of Emiratis. Due to the 20-year residency requirement for UAE citizenship, a significant 87% of residents are expatriates.
Ookw1 TIL Dateline's Keith Morrison is actor Matthew Perry's stepfather
kOoEE TIL pants and trousers are called pairs because they used to be separate. As early as the 16th Century, you'd feed one leg in, tie the top around your waist and do the same with the other leg. The name stayed even when they started being made as a single item.
M0Ba TIL that had “Jedi” been counted as an answer in the 2001 census it would be the second largest religion in New Zealand.