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TIL Owners of overweight cats are more likely to say their cat is like a child to them, & are more likely to talk to the cat about topics relating to friends and family or work.

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mxy5y TIL of Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee whose name made him a celebrity in 1995. David Letterman, learning of him, was amused by Assman's name and made him nightly feature on the show. As his fame grew polling showed that 49 percent of Canadians in September 1995 had heard of him.
69lK7 TIL Gene Siskel once scooped a story from Roger Ebert as Siskel was taking a nap under a conference table at the television station they worked at together, overhearing a telephone conversation Ebert was having with his editor at a rival newspaper.
v1DoR TIL the name "Nigeria" was coined by Flora Shaw, the wife of the first Governor-General of Nigeria (1914-1919) Fredrick Lugard, for the British Protectorate on the Niger River. Lugard had merged the Northern and Southern Protectorates to form one country.
rRx01 TIL during the Gulf War, the U.S. dropped a 6,800 kg BLU-82 bomb to conduct psychological warfare against Iraqi troops. A British SAS unit that witnessed the explosion assumed the U.S. had used a nuclear weapon and radioed back to their headquarters, "Sir, the blokes have just nuked Kuwait!".
yQjDa TIL That the American Fat Salvage Committee was created to urge housewives to save all the excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives during World War II.