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TIL Jim Davis never intended Garfield to be funny, but rather as “a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character”

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7rVrp TIL Alpaca, llama, and camel "Spit" isn't always just saliva. When very upset, the spit comes from their first stomach, and is green and has a powerful stench.
pYx0p TIL The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s
X0PVD TIL that 94% of women executives responsible for running an organization are former athletes
D10PJ TIL that Robert Liston amputated a patient's leg so fast that he cut off his assistant's fingers and slashed through a spectator's coat. His patient and assistant died due to infection, and the spectator died due to shock, making this medical operation the only known one with a 300% mortality rate.
0wAv1 TIL crows have the ability to remember human faces and if they don’t like you they won’t forget you either. The children of the crows would later carry on the same grudge.