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TIL that rodents like rats and squirrels can't vomit, one of the few mammals lacking that trait

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R5BGQ TIL in Argentina's matches at the 1990 World Cup there was at least one red card in 6 out of 7 matches. In the end 5 for their opponents and 3 for ARG (50% of all red cards)
grDwD TIL that during the Industrial Revolution, “knocker-uppers” were employed to wake people up for work by tapping on their windows with long sticks or pea shooters, serving as human alarm clocks before the invention became widespread.
yVylw TIL that Byron Hadley from The Shawshank Redemption and The Harbinger from John Wick 4 are one and the same. And he is also Mr. Krabs.
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
6D08 TIL that a woman with no criminal history spent a month in jail after cops found what they thought was a spoon with meth residue. She was released after tests confirmed the “meth residue” was spaghetti sauce.