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TIL The Guinness World Records has stopped awarding the fattest cats or any other animal to discourage deliberate overfeeding.

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ArBg TIL Baboons can distinguish real words from non-words based upon the arrangement of letters
9wkBG TIL you can have a set of identical triplets and fraternal twins (Fischer quintuplets (born 14 September 1963)
N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.