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TIL Tortoiseshell cats are almost always female. Male ones are incredibly rare and are usually sterile.

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pKw8 TIL of Santo Condorelli, a Canadian swimmer, who gives his dad the middle finger before every race he participates in.
69WA7 TIL: in 2001, an American couple actually got married in a submersible on the bow of Titanic’s wreck in an attempt to echo the famous scene from the film
p85N8 Today I learned that Eva Mozes Kor and her sister survived the Holocaust Twin Experiments. They never got to say goodbye to their family, and were the only two to survive. Instead of hating them for what they’ve put her through, Eva forgave them. She died July 4, 2019.
yVO7w TIL that bears who develop a taste for human food are put in a sanctuary and given a job testing camping coolers. A cooler has to last 60 minutes to be certified Bear Resistant.
OgOg TIL the US Navy maintains a research vessel that is designed to be capsized vertically. As a result, most rooms on it have two doors: one to use when the ship is horizontal, another when vertical.