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TIL Cats can be allergic to humans

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yQVYJ TIL that due to lack of fertilizer, North Korean shops once sold (or still selling) human feces
nWBNr TIL that Jerry Lewis’ unreleased 1972 film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’, a controversial film about a clown in a Nazi camp, can now be screened in accordance with Lewis’ wishes. Lewis gave an incomplete copy to the Library of Congress on the condition that it couldn’t be screened before June 2024.
GrOJ TIL the irish Peter O'Connor at the flag-raising ceremony in the 1906 olympics, in protest at the flying of the Union Flag for his second place, scaled a flagpole in the middle of the field and waved the Irish flag, while the pole was guarded by Irish and American athletes and supporters.
kN04 TIL: Penknives were originally used for sharpening or pointing quills to use as dip pens.
6oMJ TIL that exists a drum-solo loop known as the “Amen Break” considered one of the most used samples of digital history, you can hear it in the theme song of Futurama and it is the basis of a whole musical genre called Drum and Bass