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TIL It's possible for cats to be allergic to humans!

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NRvJ TIL that the clay that the London Underground’s deep level lines were tunnelled through has reached heat saturation, and parts of the Underground that were 14°C in the 1900s can reach 30°C today.
9YoLQ TIL Owen and Luke Wilson's father was the first person to put Monty Python's Flying Circus on TV in America.
R6G7 TIL there used to be 8 ft. tall 300lb carnivorous flightless birds in North and South America known colloquially as Terror Birds
Lkgkm TIL camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers
wen6 TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.