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TIL: Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.

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epRaD TIL 46 U.S. states allow you to use any name you want whenever you want as long as there is no fraud intended. Your consistent use of a preferred name is expected to build up unofficial records showing it. Changing your name through a court is only needed to force institutions to recognize a change.
rRYLo TIL: According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Joseph was 90 years old when he married Mary, at the time between 12 and 14
jwAE TIL: Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
pY4xp TIL that chickens are sometimes cannibals.