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TIL Bill Gates has a pressure sensitive floor in his home. At any time he knows who and where anyone is in his house.

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JXOB TIL Jack Abernathy was known as “Catch-‘em-alive Jack” because he would catch wolves by jumping off a horse, shoving his hand in the wolf’s mouth so it was unable to bite down, and holding it down until it became docile. He performed this trick for Teddy Roosevelt during a hunt in Oklahoma in 1905.
WkZ54 TIL the paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxa) comes from tadpoles that are approximately 3-4 times larger than the resulting adult frog.
ADvyx TIL that Russia is the only country where McDonalds have a Mcshrimp on the Menu.
RZ48 TIL school buses are yellow because yellow is seen faster than any other color, and seen 1.24 times faster than red.
gr9Z7 TIL that actor Hume Cronyn's father has an asteroid named after him (12050-Humecronyn)