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TIL outdoor roaming domestic cats kill an estimated 14.7 billion birds and mammals every year in the US. The majority of birds killed are native and the majority of mammals killed in suburban and rural areas are native

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p8ZPZ TIL that various Nazis used a secret codeword to get exclusive service at a Nazi run brothel. Joseph Goebbels enjoyed “lesbian displays”, and an SS general enjoyed an all-night orgy with 20 girls. The building was tapped. Mussolini’s son in law was recorded expressing negative opinions of Hitler.
1ablW TIL that Marathonist athletes in the early 1900s used brandy, glasses of bubbly, and strychnine (best known now as rat poison) and sometimes even heroin or cocaine to mask pain, increase aggressiveness, and/or give a quick energy boost during races!
0dZAp TIL of Bess Flowers, known as the 'Queen of the Hollywood Extras' with over 800 acting credits
X09n6 TIL that in the early days of rail transport, there was a railroad in California where passengers were required to get out and push the train up steep hills due to inadequate engine power
R70Rj TIL Bolivia became landlocked in 1904 after losing the War of the Pacific. However, the country still observes the Day of the Sea, "where politicians give speeches and people listen to the recorded sound of seagulls."