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TIL cats drink by creating a water column, not scooping with their tongue.

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remM TIL An American gymnast with a wooden leg won six medals, including three gold, in a single day at the 1904 Olympics. He was the only Olympian to have competed with a prosthetic limb for the next 100 years, until 2008.
MkEm TIL in 1972, natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Gabon, Africa. They operated for a few hundred thousand years and generated an average of 100kW of power.
7EEL TIL that interracial marriages were illegal in Alabama until a vote in 2000; but even then 40% of the voters wanted to keep it illegal.