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TIL people have composed music specifically for cats, and cats actually seem to like it.

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6E9WW TIL that verbs comprise approximately 75% of the Cherokee language, as opposed to only 25% of the English language. Verbs must contain at minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix.
R7x41 TIL Bishop John Atherton Was The First Person To Be Tried And Executed Under An Anti-Sodomy Law He Had Helped Institute.
KOONw TIL of the Eyre highway in Australia. With distances of up to 720km between towns and a 140km section without a single bend, the longest straight road in the world.
xVjGD TIL Ron Jeremy dropped his last name professionally for fear of embarrassing his family. His father told him "If you want to get into this naked, crazy business, so be it, but if you use the family name again, I'll kill you.'"
doDd TIL in 1939, Major League pitcher, Bob Feller, tested the speed of his pitches by throwing them against a racing motorcycle before radar guns were invented.