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TIL: Nearly 60% of pet cats in America are overweight or obese.

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e0mlL TIL the venom from the Brazilian Wandering Spider contains a protein (PnTx2-6) that has been found to induce priapism (a persistent, long lasting erection). In 2011, a research study was conducted using this protein to treat erectile dysfunction with success found in treating mice.
W71OB TIL The emperor of Japan is the only currently reigning monarch whose title is translated into English as "Emperor".
oBWQ8 TIL that about 25% of people who commit suicide are legally drunk before death
QX6E TIL Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost
5k99 TIL that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed that a race of uniformly 6-foot-tall humans who dressed like Quakers and lived to the age of 1,000 resided on the moon.