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TIL the Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line in Japan has a stationmaster cat

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N70Ee TIL of Inmate Kevin Pullum, who escaped Twin Towers Correctional Facility by walking out of an employee exit 2 hours after being convicted of attempted murder. He used a newspaper photograph of actor Eddie Murphy to alter an identification badge.
9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
wLPRo TIL that the reason large cuts of meat like port and brisket "stall" (stay at the same temperature, sometimes for hours) while being smoked is because they are "sweating" and water evaporation is cooling them as fast as heat is being added.
j61Pj TIL Elmo from Sesame Street testified before a House of Representative subcommittee, and he was referred to as “Elmo Monster” and “Mr. Monster"
yM4X TIL that Dr. Jack Kevorkian proposed that inmates condemned to death be allowed to choose “medical experimentation under complete anaesthesia (at the time appointed for administering the penalty) as a form of execution in lieu of conventional methods prescribed by law.”