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TIL cats, unlike dogs, cannot (for physiologically reasons resulting in blindness & death) be vegetarian

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bwQ0 TIL the melody of the American national anthem comes from a drinking song about Greek gods and sex by a British gentleman’s club
9YM4r TIL that in Finland there's an old measurement unit called "poronkusema" which can be translated to "reindeer’s piss". It describes the distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop to pee which is around 7 - 7.5km. Also reindeer can't walk and pee at the same time.
xV80B TIL of Bobby Driscoll, famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), who died penniless and alone at age 31 in an abandoned NYC building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
ndrG TIL The founder of Domino’s Pizza created a Catholic town in Florida that he governs and controls, which includes banning all forms of birth control in the “town”
90KB TIL there are “heater bees” who keep their body temperatures 10 degrees hotter than other bees in the colony to keep the hive warm. They also can vary the temperature around developing pupae to determine what kind of honey bee they will become: either forager bees or “house keeper” bees.