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TIL Cats will starve themselves to death if they don't like the food

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ANdKx TIL that in 1994, a nutrition researcher published a groundbreaking discovery in diabetes care and named it after herself. Nobody noticed that it was just basic calculus, known for over 2,000 years.
J8Dj TIL the term the “grandfather clause” comes from US segregation laws, wherein tests designed to disenfranchise African-Americans would also disenfranchise poor Southern whites as well. The workaround was that people were allowed to vote if their grandfathers had been allowed to as well.
nml9 TIL the Ottoman Empire was still in existence the last time the Cubs won the world series.
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ANrGn TIL Dogs are the most popular pets in the US, and 44.6% of American households have dogs.