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

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OoGMX TIL a gamer was banned from xbox live because he was from Fort Gay, WV and xbox didn't believe that it was a real place.
QJ4pX TIL That Len Bias' death was reported in the media as a crack overdose. Members of the US government used the news to promote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 including the 100:1 ratio of crack sentencing. Len Bias actually died of a cocaine overdose, and there is no evidence of him ever using crack.
JYEL4 TIL the stocks and pillory were in use in Delaware until 1905 and they had a whipping post until 1972.
jNm8X TIL of the Hatfield-McCoy family feud, one of the most famous in America. Both families were Confederates, but one of the McCoys fought for the Union. While returning home from the war, he was murdered by a Confederate militia with the prime suspect being a Hatfield.
8DMG TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s administration was plagued with corruption and scandal due to nepotism, favoritism, and the unprecedented way he ran his cabinet resulting in Black Friday (1869) and Whiskey Ring (1875)