› added 9 years ago

191

TIL a stroke suffering cat owner tried to teach his cat to press a 911 speed dial. Unsure whether the training stuck, the owner later fell from his wheel chair during a seizure. Police received a silent 911 call from the house and arrived to find the man incapacitated and the cat by the phone.

Read more cancats.net

via reddit.com

PYeWe TIL Of Shavarsh Karapetyan, a 17x world champion, 10x world record breaking finswimmer who heard a bus crash into a river, saved 20 drowning people, unconscious for 45 days, got sepsis, retired from sport, and later badly burnt himself saving people from a burning building.
4X4aN TIL Holding in your Fart can actually cause Bad Breath.When gas hangs out too long in your intestine, it begins to reabsorb into your bloodstream. It is then carried through your body up to your lungs where it is processed out and leaves when you exhale!
BKNb TIL of a Cynic named Diogenes who had no regard for wealth or honor. He was once sitting outside when Alexander the Great approached and asked if he wanted anything; he replied, “yes, stand a little out of my sun.” The awestruck king said “truly if I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.”
0d0NN TIL Andrew Garfield had never sung professionally before playing Jonathan Larson in the musical Tick, Tick…Boom! (2021). But after taking a year to vocally prepare before filming the role, he ended up earning an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
aLAZ TIL that geomagnetic storms are correlated with an increase in suicide all over the world