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TIL Mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and cougars are all the same animal - the Puma Concolor

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loE4G TIL that the California King is not the largest size mattress-- that honor goes to the Alaskan King, which is a whopping 108" x 108" (that's 9 feet x 9 feet)!
mrmM TIL McDonalds does not pay time and a half to Employees working Christmas day because it could be “Discriminatory” to people whom do not celebrate Christmas.
4Mjo TIL that Goodyear developed a small inflatable airplane called the “Inflatoplane” with funding from the United States Army in 1956. The project was scrapped because it could not find a “valid military use for an aircraft that could be brought down by a well-aimed bow and arrow.”
ooVW TIL the first artificial insemination took place in 1884 when a med professor injected his unconscious patient with the semen of “his most handsome student”, unbeknownst to both the woman and her infertile husband.
yypM TIL that the German word for “jack of all trades” (Eierlegende-wollmilchsau) literally means egg-laying-wool-milk-pig thereby describing the perfect animal that provides wool, milk and, finally, bacon.