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TIL of Sasha the black cat who was found in the city Santa Fe, Mexico 1,200 miles away five years after disappearing from her Portland home

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gMdoD TIL there is a term for when you repeat a word so much that you start to lose sense of what the word is and means: Semantic satiation (or semantic saturation)
J481 TIL a Nigerian man survived 3 days in an upside down tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He was eventually found by body recovery divers.
aN5b TIL that as a teenager, Lou Reed’s parents made him undergo electroshock therapy 3 times a week in an attempt to cure him of his bisexuality
YrwZ TIL that Ulysses S. Grant threatened to resign his commission if the President and U.S. Government prosecuted Robert E. Lee or any of his men.
Eg5gW TIL that we don't have 100,000km (60,000m) of blood vessels. It's actually around 9,000km to 19,000km