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TIL: Many cats have a common form of alopecia called preauricular alopecia or facial alopecia, which causes the thinning hair between the ears and eyes that you often see in felines

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neZPG TIL The villagers of Piplantri plants 111 trees every time a girl is born. To ensure the girls financial security, the villagers contribute Rs 21,000 and set a fixed deposit bank account, which can be used only, once she turns 18
R7Xl9 TIL Adolf Hitler employed 15 women to act as food testers, checking his food for poison.
wZJE TIL that Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro both stopped by(separately) John Belushi’s Hotel Room to do coke hours before he died.
dv8E TIL basketball legend Tim Duncan was a teenage champion swimmer in the Virgin Islands. When Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island’s only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks
Vd7B TIL that it takes 450,000 terabytes to map a mouse’s brain with enough resolution to show all the connections between neurons. It would take 1.3 Billion terabytes to map a human brain to that resolution.