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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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Br0mk TIL Verizon trademarked the smell of their stores, calling it "flowery musk scent".
yQyya TIL around 1980 a man named Denis Hope have sold plots of land on the moon to notable people like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Barbara Walters and even former president George H.W Bush, he claims the UN outer space treaty doesn't negate an individual claiming ownership for the moon.
PYp7g TIL during a drill in 1943, the USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time. The entire crew was rumored to have been arrested when they returned to shore.
QgQM TIL English muffins aren’t baked.
AbM4 TIL the Ganges river has 1.1 million liters of raw sewage dumped into it every 60 seconds.