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TIL - Cats Respond Most Readily to Names that End in an “ee” Sound

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wLPVM TIL that in the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force drew up plans for a 4000-ton nuclear space battleship. It would have been armed with 500 nuclear missiles, propelled by nuclear explosions, and been entirely feasible with contemporary technology. President Kennedy was horrified by the idea and cancelled it
VQg4 TIL a texas man once spent 22 days using only his nose to push a peanut all the way up Pikes Peak (for a $50 bet)
4X9l6 TIL Don Simpson, producer of such films as Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, and partner of Jerry Bruckheimer died with 21 different drugs in his system. He had 15 doctors prescribing him pills and had 2,200 pills lined up in alphabetical order in his closet.
Xx1X TIL That the ‘Happy Birthday’ song had an 80 year copyright claim on it and was only recently abolished
Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed