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TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"

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M7Lkb TIL cats love green olives. They are basically edible catnip.
D1dwD TIL June Foray voiced so many familiar characters in her career- from Tweety/Sylvester's Granny, Cindy Lou Who, Rocky the Squirrel, even Chatty Cathy the first talking doll- that Chuck Jones said, "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."
P1ElO TIL Gas stations have a transactional cap of $75-$100 USD. Big rig truckers, RV'ers, large trucks, and even SUVs will often have to run multiple credit card swipes in order to top off the fuel tanks.
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OQmg TIL the song “Stairway to Heaven” has more radio air time than the amount of time that is has been a song. (It was released in 1971)