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TIL many animal shelters do not allow adoption of black cats in October to protect the cats from being sacrificed or tortured.

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rRLrW TIL of a man who legally changed his name to "Winter" in 2006, has played over 7,000 tournament games of Scrabbles, and has visited over 15,000 Starbucks locations, with the dream of visiting every Starbucks in the world.
e0n1n TIL Terry Crews supplemented his income in the NFL by painting portraits of his teammates. In some cases, this was his primary income. He typically earned $5,000 for a two-month commission to support his whole family.
kj47 TIL that Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother) lived in New Jersey after having been King of Spain, Sicily, and Naples. He lived off selling his jewelry and eventually moved back to Europe where he died and was buried near his brother.
97Q6 TIL that roughly 93% of Idaho’s net electricity generation came from hydro-electric dams, making it the top state for renewably generated energy in the US.
ADP74 TIL that scientists successfully cloned an extinct goat back to life, but it died very shortly due to breathing problems.