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TIL the bell on a cat's collar exists to limit their hunting potential, with the bell being observed to reduce captured birds by 30%-40%

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7rQoL TIL the movie District 9 was made with the money originally planned to make the video game movie Halo. The decision was made by the studios to not make Halo the day they were to start shooting it so instead Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp started making District 9.
9PQp TIL - Prostitutes in 16th century England shaved their pubic hair and then wore vagina toupees called ‘merkins’.
m1V0v TIL that when Weird Al wrote I Want A New Duck in 1985, he went to the library and researched ducks for a week
woAw6 TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot