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TIL It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street

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bAgE TIL Faith by George Michael is the only album by a Caucasian artist to top the Billboard R&B charts.
OGE4L TIL: House cats are extremely effective hunters; domestic and feral cats kill billions of birds every year in the US alone. Putting a loud/extremely visible collar on cats can help warn birds from cat attacks.
y6Ra TIL 20 ft long crocodiles used to have long legs, allowing them to emerge from water gallop at other animals at full speed
VM44p TIL that the RMS Titanic was designed to carry 68 lifeboats (enough for everyone on board), and although she only had around half as many needed on her maiden voyage, it would have only costed $16k to add the remaining needed; a small fraction of the $7.5m it took to construct the ship.
9wWE7 TIL that many marine animals have a salt gland that allows them to drink salt water for hydration. It's located in the skull for birds and reptiles, and in the rectum for sharks.