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TIL A prison in Washington has created a program called Cuddly Catz,where prisoners are given a cat,which would otherwise probably be euthanized,to care for.

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XEnKk TIL Kotex, the first-ever brand of sanitary napkins for women, was first manufactured as bandages during WWI. Cellucotton, which was made of wood pulp, was five times as absorbent as cotton bandages but much less expensive. The company needed to find a use for the cellucotton after the war.
d8Q6j TIL Originally published in Pyongyang in 1988, “Friend” by Paek Nam-nyong became the first state-sanctioned novel written in North Korea for North Koreans ever made available to Anglophone readers in a translated 2020 edition
vPmZ8 TIL the U.S. federal government has an official color palette
EgxY7 TIL: National Park Services has their own Investigative Services Branch. The FBI of of the NSB, solving decades old Cold Cases in the worst of conditions.
N7ma1 TIL New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be cleaned periodically with specialized acids costing about $400,000 a flush!