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TIL that your cat's "zoomies" are actually called "frenetic random activity periods" or FRAP for short.

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VBJl8 TIL that John Lennon once mistook a nativity scene outside a house with a bunch of men playing poker on a midnight stroll home from Paul McCartney's house. He wasn't wearing his glasses at the time
Yp71G TIL that a river in New Zealand has been given legal status as a living entity and possesses the same rights as a human being.
PYw6w TIL After Peter the Great mandated that all officers in his army must have started their career as privates, noble families began to register newborn boys as privates. First reporting for service at the age of 15, the boys were then promoted through seniority to junior lieutenant or equivalent rank
YOMd TIL that an Australian study looking at 91 patients who claimed to have had their drink spiked found that zero patients had actually been exposed to sedative drugs in their drink.
7y8L TIL of a Chinese traffic jam that lasted 10 days, with some individual drivers taking up to 5 days to get out. This took so long that a small micro economy developed on the highway