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TIL that at night, Disneyland becomes overrun by stray cats. Disney embraces them because they keep the mouse population in check and treats them like pets, including spaying and neutering them and giving them shots.

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BgKWK TIL: Colombia (country) announced in Dec that it will attempt to retrieve treasures from the 1708 shipwreck of San José which contains billions of dollars worth of gold, silver, emeralds, etc despite the ongoing legal battle between the US, Spain, and Columbia over who owns it.
G0oJ TIL Anthony Hopkins did a marathon of Breaking Bad and once he finished he wrote Bryan Cranston that his performance of Walter White was the best acting he’s ever seen.
QJvOL TIL of the "subliminal message trial". The band Judas Priest were involved in a civil action that alleged they were responsible for the 1985 suicides of two young men
rR8e0 TIL the spiked ball and chain was never an actually used in warfare; it is entirely a fantasy weapon invented by later peoples but attributed to the middle ages
EdjP TIL that a 2005 study found that the scores of “wine experts” are essentially meaningless, revealing that a typical judge’s scoring of a wine varied by plus/minus four points over three blind tastings poured from the same bottle.