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TIL: Women who are pregnant cannot change a cats litter box because of the risk of Toxoplasmosis; NOT from the litter itself but from the cats urine.

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M7k7V TIL in 1612 Jennet Device, a six-year-old girl, sentenced her family to death as witches
gla9 TIL while shooting “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” Eli Wallach mistakenly drank acid left next to his drink, was accidentally hanged by a faulty stunt rope, nearly decapitated by a train passing overhead, and left on a horse with his hands tied behind his back when it panicked and ran away.
b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
QNlgp TIL that by the late 90s, 80% of digital library catalogs ran on the PICK operating system, named after its developer Dick Pick.
yQJZ8 TIL that Ecuador (GDP per capita is 1/6 of US) and Peru (GDP per capita is 1/4 of US) both maintain active research stations in Antarctica.