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TIL Peruvian lilies are false lilies and aren’t toxic to cats

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xV7Jb TIL when deaf people with schizophrenia 'hear voices', they hallucinate hands communicating using sign language
R5jDw TIL The Thalweg principle is the legal principle that if the boundary between two political entities is stated to be a waterway without further description (e.g. right bank, eastern shore, low-tide line, etc.), the boundary follows the thalweg, the line of lowest elevation, of that watercourse.
Ooy06 TIL: Thor Christiansen, a Serial Killer who was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a shot to the head. She recognised him months later in a bar and reported him to police. Law enforcement then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders that had a similar MO.
R7Yoa TIL that Git-hub, a code hosting platform is protecting priceless open-source codes by storing multiple copies in archival facility 250 meters deep in the permafrost of an Arctic mountain to last at least 1,000 years so that future historians can find it !
BN4K TIL That far from being cowardly, French forces during the Nazi invasion continued to fight for three weeks after the politicians surrendered the country, and only gave up when requested by their general