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TIL there are over 86 million pet cats in America

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j6yeX TIL that Klaus and Sunny from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow, a famous attempted murder case where a wealthy lawyer was found guilty of injecting his wife, Sunny, with a deadly insulin cocktail which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life
PAGV TIL that Nixon said “I am not a crook” at Disney World
x605w TIL in the US there was an "oyster craze" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Due to advances in oyster farm technology, between 1880 and 1910, as many as 160 million pounds of oysters were harvested a year, and in 1909 the price per pound fell to less than half of beef.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.