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TIL the Chinese word for cat is Mao, so cats pretty much say their name all the time like Pokemon

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Z8RWG TIL that Tampa, FL has never reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
grvAX TIL the number of legal board positions in the game Go has been calculated to be far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe
loXxK TIL about Dorothy Gibson, an actress that survived the Titanic sinking and later went on to star on a film depicting the sinking wearing the same dress she had used during the real thing.
nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
VMlp TIL Rhydon was the first pokémon to ever be programmed, hence the numerous Rhydon statues scattered across Kanto in the original games.