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TIL Cats have a very small prefrontal cortex, making them rather impulsive creatures.

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gM18 TIL in 1977, a drunk Sid Vicious burst into the wrong studio, confronted Freddie Mercury who was sat alone and snarled ‘Ello’ Fred! Still bringin’ ballet to the masses?’ to which Mercury replied politely 'Ah Mr Ferocious…. We are doing our best, dear’ and shoved him through the door.
JYjbj TIL of the "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti", which is a psychiatric case-study that revolved around an experiment on a group of three patients with paranoid schizophrenia, each of whom believed they were literally Jesus Christ. They were brought together and "quarreled over who was holier".
pYRg4 TIL there's a member of the Waffen-SS buried in Arlington National Cemetery
b6lej TIL: Horseshoe crabs have 10 eyes scattered across their head and tail, some of which are significantly different in function from one another.
ne5NW TIL the word "Ye" on nostalgic signs (Ye Old Tavern, etc) is supposed to be a Middle-English translation of "The". However, Ye was never actually a word- a character called a Thorn (þ) made a "TH" sound, so it would be spelled 'þe Old Tavern', reading as 'The Old Tavern.'