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TIL declawing a cat is anatomically the equivalent of removing the entire last bone in a human finger at the joint.

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bmE7 TIL That clownfish are ‘sequential hermaphrodites’, meaning that if Finding Nemo were more accurate, Nemo’s father would’ve turned into his mother after the real mother died, Nemo would’ve become the new reproducing male, “and they would raise little incestuous Nemos together.”
mVEO TIL that the Washington Monument is the tallest stone structure in the world
8xvX TIL of the Cat Organ, a 16th century piano-type contraption played by a trained bear which yanked the tails of cats in order to create music.
N7l5P TIL that the British colony of New South Wales originally included what is now New Zealand, the Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, and Norfolk Island
epka6 TIL Iona Morris was replaced as Storm in X-Men:The Animated Series because she would have been owed residuals otherwise