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TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 and her name was Creme Puff

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j6GXR TIL that John Wilkes Booth was present at the hanging of John Brown.
J9oQ TIL XXX on cartoon jugs of alcohol originally denoted three time distilled, resulting in almost pure alcohol content.
N7EJM Across the atmosphere of Earth, lightning flashes about 50 times per second. That’s 4.3 million times a day and roughly 1.5 billion times a year.
wopNY TIL Julius Schmid arrived in NYC as a penniless, partially paralyzed German immigrant. He got a job at a sausage maker where he started selling the leftover animal intestines as condoms. He grew this into a multi-million dollar business eventually being named "the undisputed king of condoms".