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TIL studies show that cats understand human commands, but don't care to follow them

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VM908 TIL Lillian Brown, the makeup artist of nine US presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he was about to go on national television to announce his resignation by telling him a funny story so that his makeup wouldn't be ruined.
M71b0 TIL that the phrase "Does exactly what it says on the tin" came from a UK advert in 1995
b6Q49 TIL that in 1943, American banker Donald Triplett became the first person to be diagnosed with autism. He was labeled as "Case 1".
p8yJQ TIL that a micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities
woEaM TIL Waffle House cooks use a code written in food to remember an order that was yelled in.