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TIL That Cats go crazy around catnip because it contains a chemichal that is found in dominant female cat’s piss.

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9DKQ TIL: After legalizing white rhino hunting, South Africa saw an increase from 100 to 11,000 white rhinos in the country. Legalization of hunting motivated private land owners to reintroduce the species onto their land
Y7MKA TIL Unlike most religions, the Druze do not allow outsiders to convert to their faith.
JYE64 TIL we don't know what Robert Hooke looked like because a pissed off Sir Isaac Newton "lost" Hooke's portrait after he died.
p8Yde It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, "but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on in there."
a8Jr9 TIL that the Amber Alert isn't named after the color, but after Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old Texan girl who was kidnapped right off the streets and later found dead with her throat slit four days later. Her murder is still unsolved.