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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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BrAYL TIL: GDP (PPP) per capita, the United States is the 15th richest country in the world
JYwkm TIL of Black Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every August when the new cohort of junior doctors begin working in the NHS after graduating medical school, where patients are about 6% more likely to die than on other days
6Ev8W TIL of Henri Giraud, who escaped German captivity in World War I by pretending to be a circus performer, and AGAIN in World War II by scaling down a mountain fortress in his 60s.
eppaE TIL about William Cunningham a body snatcher in Ohio who responded to medical students playing a prank on him, by sending them a corpse which was diseased with the deadly and highly infectious smallpox.
MeKbW TIL the "Nobel Prize in Economics" isn't a real Nobel Prize. It was established over 70 years after the death of Alfred Nobel, is sponsored by a bank and is officially only "in memory of Alfred Nobel"