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TIL, the Convicted Child Sex Offender Christoper Neil, AKA Mr. Swirl, has been released as of March 26, 2017 and lives in Vancouver, Canada

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R57lj TIL that Hidetaka Miyazaki, the game director behind Dark Souls and Elden Ring, was an account manager for a US company until he played the game Ico, which inspired him to switch careers to game design. He became the president of FromSoftware within only 10 years.
wL6yY TIL Research shows that cats are able to recognise their own names being called. It is not known why they do not always respond, however they may not attach deep meaning to specific words.
e06L4 TIL A cat in heat can have multiple eggs, and they can be released over several days of her cycle. If Tabby has chosen more than one Tom during her heat cycle, it's possible she'll be carrying kittens from multiple fathers.
YeLZ TIL that nobody really knows how many muscles are in the human body. Numbers range from 656 to 850 to over 50 billion depending on how you count them.
l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy