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TIL Cats liked to be pet when eating contrary to popular belief

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m4yy TIL that the word “fancy” in “fancy ketchup” refers its higher specific gravity in comparison to “standard ketchup.”
EK1o TIL All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
ZLoQ TIL that the author of ‘Fight Club’ once played a David Bowie track repeatedly on a jukebox to annoy other novelists that were trying to pitch a book to a publisher at a bar. It worked and the movie adaptation was made a few years later.
J9J1 TIL that Shaq was one of the original investors in Google and VitaminWater, but passed up on Starbucks because he didn’t drink coffee.
M7AWb TIL Kentucky has the strictest school bus safety standards in the USA, e.g. requiring 9 emergency exits. It was in response to a tragic 1988 school bus crash where a fire killed 27 trapped children and adults. The 1977 bus had only 2 exits and ran off flammable gasoline held in an unprotected tank.