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TIL that cats can recognize their owners voices, just never evolved to care

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kOeJd TIL that Hildegard "Bloody Brigitte" Lächert, the female Nazi death camp guard who enjoyed torturing prisoners until she felt ecstatic, served less than 10 years for her crimes, and then went to work for the CIA and West Germany's BND spy agencies.
GAZl5 TIL the letter “Z” used to be pronounced “izzard"
QJVp TIL in the United Kingdom, if an election has resulted in a tie in which candidates receive exactly the same number of votes after three recounts, the winner can be decided either by drawing straws/lots, coin flipping, or drawing the high card in a pack of cards.
xxB5 TIL that in 2005, a wheelchair-bound woman won a treadmill on ‘The Price is Right"
eejk TIL the first victim of the 9/11 attacks was an Internet entrepreneur who was stabbed in-flight trying to fight off the Flight 11 hijackers