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TIL a cat named Dusty gave birth to 420 kittens during her lifetime

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loWk7 TIL Bernard Fisher established definitively that early-stage breast cancer is more effectively treated by lumpectomy, in combination with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy, than by radical mastectomy which had been standard for over 75 years.
7rwob TIL Malta voted to become integrated with the UK in 1956, but that never ended up happening
rQde TIL: Lawrence Baker had his death sentence via electric chair reduced to life in prison, only to electrocute himself by sitting on a toilet and biting a pair of headphones that were plugged into a t.v.
R7O14 TIL R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe nearly died of scarlet fever in 1962, of hypothermia in 1974, and of a lightning strike in 1986.
m1lQE TIL the end credits for The LEGO Movie were made in real stop-motion style, and those 3 minutes of content took 3 full time animators two months to create.