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TIL flushing cat poop kills sea otters by infecting them with toxoplasmosis

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v1gRK TIL that Emily Davison, a brutish suffragette, stepped in front of the King’s horse at the 1913 Epson Derby and was killed. This shows that protestors have always stood in high traffic areas. There’s a video of it too. Emily Davison | British activist
X0pJP TIL In the year 133BC, Rome became the first city ever to reach a population of 1 million. The next European city to do so was London in the year 1801AD, almost 2,000 years later.
wLd9M TIL a Florida professor caught 200 of his students in a cheating scandal and captured his lecture to them in a video he later posted online
Qexp TIL as a prank, 11 students rotated a 2,000lb statue of the university founder 180 degrees. Only one student was caught and never snitched.
PvoG TIL the Emperor of Japan was historically very young. The duties of the emperor were considered incredibly tedious, and after a decade most emperors abdicated the throne to their younger brother.