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TIL Cats have kidneys so efficient that they can rehydrate on seawater.

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QgWE TIL Morgan Freeman used to do hard drugs, but he’s said that he would “Never give up the ganja.”
nWkOP TIL that at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, well-behaved prisoners are allowed to keep cats. These feline companions are believed to help in managing the prisoners' temperaments and are considered very beneficial for the convicts.
DlVJ TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
v1KeR TIL that in 1905, Chelsea FC put two small boys behind their goalkeeper, William "Fatty" Foulke, in order to accentuate Foulke's size (1.93m, 152kg) and put off opposing attackers. The boys would sometimes run and return the ball when it went out of play. By accident, ballboys came into being.
6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.