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TIL cats have fewer toes on their back feet

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X068r TIL that Susan Boyle's debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, was the biggest selling album in the world for 2009 and remains the fastest-selling debut album ever in the UK
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
9Y756 TIL in North Korea, this year isn’t 2020; it is the year 108
5YxXr TIL that legendary stand up comedian Lenny Bruce pretended to be gay to get out of service after four invasions in the Pacific in 1945, after 30 months of service. Bruce got his Undesirable Discharge papers 3 weeks after confessing to a navy doctor... He was the inpiration for Crpl. Klinger in MASH.
WW89 TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper said to one of his victims he was sorry for accidentally touching her breast, a few minutes before killing her