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TIL that Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Benito Mussolini were all reported to have not simply disliked cats, but actually feared them.

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nemGB TIL that the neurons in an octopus are not concentrated in the brain - 2/3 of them are located in the tentacles meaning that each individual tentacle acts autonomously and independently of the brain. However, an octopus can exert precise control over a tentacle when need be through eyesight alone.
v1o8j TIL that "second" (after first) is the same word as "second" (a 60th of a minute), because we get a minute from dividing the hour by 60, and then we divide it a second time.
GYoEG TIL Christian Bale did interviews for Batman Begins in an American accent
yQQXv TIL Doctors use Coca-Cola to dissolve human hairballs (gastric bezoars). Instructions: drink 10 cans within 12 hours.
0w78v TIL that from 1950 until 1966, NBA teams could specifically draft a player if they attended a college withkn 50 miles of the team's arena; players like Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson were drafted this way