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TIL that you should never cut a cat's whiskers as they are very sensitive and cats use them to feel around. Cutting whiskers cash cause cats to become disoriented and scared, and might cause it to get stuck easily

OGZNR TIL that during rehearsals for a 2003 Saturday Night Live episode, Matthew McConaughey felt up the breasts of cast member Rachel Dratch while ad-libbing in-character. Dratch kept the rehearsal footage and in July of that year, showed footage of it on Late Night with Conan O'Brian.
P17GV TIL that Parmentier, to encourage the consumption of potatoes which people were wary of, decided to have the field where he grew them guarded by armed men during the day but not at night. Guarding the field increased the value of the crop; at night it was easy to steal tubers, and consumption spread
7OKO TIL that in the South Park episode “The Ring”, the girl at the Jonas Brothers concert said “my giny tickles” because the show’s producer’s 8yo daughter said that at one of their actual concerts. Also, they really did spray fans with white foam.
ZpWxY TIL for weeks, no one was able to identify what ailed a community of sick chimpanzees in Uganda, even as the animals had began to die. But researchers eventually discovered the body of an adult female & were able to determine that more than 12% of the community had been killed by the common cold.
7jEZ TIL that during the first four days of World War II pet-owners in London queued up at animal shelters to put down their dogs and cats. More than 400,000 animals died. There was no government order to do so; nor was there any economic need.