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TIL 42% of house cats are allergic to fish to some degree and 28% to any commercial diet they were fed.

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mxm8v TIL that the scientific name of the protein Titin is 189,819 letters long and would take about 3.5 hours to read outloud
bdd4 TIL after the first 4 episodes of Seinfeld aired in the summer of 1990, NBC took a leap of faith and ordered 13 more. Larry David said, “I don’t have any more stories to tell, Jerry turn the order down.” Jerry didn’t listen and said “Yes” to the pickup.
OGVoL TIL that some people engage in 'platonic co-parenting', where they raise children together without ever being in a romantic relationship
7rgdP TIL that Bulls don’t actually hate the colour red. In Bull fights, they don’t charge at the cape because of its colour, but because of the motion it makes when the matador waves it. The cape is just red to mask the bloodstains from the fight.
9wvP6 TIL I learned that in 2012, in an attempt to reduce the number of people ending their lives by jumping off of South Korea's Mapo Bridge, the bridge was renamed The Bridge of Life and was decorated with life affirming messages. The amount of people jumping actually increased the following year.