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TIL that Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis wrote a series of morbid comic strips about the fat cat in the 1980’s, including one story line where his entire existence is the imagination of an abandoned lonely cat

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0dPdR TIL that FIFA restricts the Olympics men's soccer teams from including players 23 or older to prevent elite players from participating. Women's teams in the olympics have no such restrictions.
J1KGv TIL Admiral Nelson had a specially made fork with a knife attachment that let him eat meals with only one hand after losing his right arm at Santa Cruz in 1797.
waeP TIL Lacrosse, as originally played by Native Americans, fielded teams from 100 to 1,000 men, with goals 500 yards to 6 miles apart, with games lasting several days, played sunup to sundown. These games tended to become huge mobs of players swarming the ball and slowly moving it across the field.
4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud
e0WrL TIL Lymphocytes kill targets including tumor cells by inducing them to undergo programmed cell death aka apoptosis.