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TIL there’s a man in Scotland who’s called the Catman. He crawls around eating rats.

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VMWM8 TIL that Tucker Carlson, before joining journalism, had applied to the CIA but his application was denied.
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69LPl TIL that despite the critical success of 2006 album “Back to Black” and that it won multiple Grammies, Amy Winehouse can be technically called a one-hit wonder in the US due to her only cracking the Top 40 once, with her song “Rehab”
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WkG1A TIL Sir Isaac Newton repeatedly did experiments sticking a bodkin (a very sharp needle) between his eyeball and his eye socket, “as neare to backside of my eye as I could”,he was quoted. He did this til he saw spots. He did it because he hoped he might learn something about color.