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TIL "thumb cats" are cats with a condition where the cat is born with more than the usual number of toes on one or more of its paws

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R5rn6 TIL that there is a Dinosaur named after the Harry Potter franchise. DRACOREX HOGSWARTIA
e0jK5 TIL lithium metal must be stored under argon as it can burn in a pure nitrogen atmosphere (no oxygen present) to form lithium nitride. Other reactive metals like sodium and potassium, however, do not react with nitrogen.
mxgav TIL freshly cut grass smells the way it does because it’s a shriek of dispair
4X786 TIL the planes that struck the World Trade Center Twin Towers weighed 100% more, carried 100% more fuel, and flew 100% faster than the plane whose impact the buildings were designed to withstand, a Boeing 707 airliner flying at landing approach speeds.
Bgd4L TIL one of the earliest escape attempts to bypass the Berlin Wall was by Heinz Meixner in 1963. He removed a convertible's windshield and deflated its tires as low as possible. He, with his fiancee and her mother hidden, then drove up to the boom barrier, sped under it, and escaped into West Berlin.