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TIL that declawing a cat amputates a joint and is illegal in most countries

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0JPN TIL: Sugar is used to stop concrete setting if it is poured by accident
VOjp TIL: of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one exists today - the Pyramids.
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.
R5d94 TIL in 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland in football 222 - 0. It’s the largest point differential in NCAA or professional history.
re5w TIL there was a woman that faces jail for growing vegetables in her front yard; five large planter boxes containing basil, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers. The charges got dropped later on after the city was hammered with negative publicity.