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TIL Every year, feral cats kill 1.4 billion native animals in Australia

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p8PVQ TIL the Japanese title for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" literally translated to "The Gay Boy's Dragon Show"
vP1xD TIL that Bentley only uses leather from bulls for the upholstery of its cars, because they don’t get the stretch marks cows do.
QJgQ9 TIL that "twitchers" are committed bird-watchers who travel long distances to see new species. They have their own jargon, including "nemesis" for a bird that has eluded them despite multiple attempts to see it, and "plastic" for a bird that escaped from captivity rather than being genuinely wild.
ADZax TIL Usain Bolt ate 1,000 Chicken McNuggets over 10 days during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
a8vyN TIL that astronaut Story Musgrave, after completing his GED, received a BS in Math, an MBA, a BA in Chemistry, an MD from Columbia, an MS in physiology, and finally an MA in literature.