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TIL Cats ‘play’ with their prey to ensure that the prey is weak enough to be killed without endangering the cat.

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D1PVj TIL the last time Mtv's schedule was only music videos with no other programming was the weeks after 9/11/2001 when they played a tight playlist of light and mournful songs.
j6N5E TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited
NkRe TIL Weird Al would take his dates to see The Naked Gun (in which he had a cameo), while even wearing the same Hawaiian shirt he wore in the film, to see them “flip out”
lGjA TIL the “Streisand Effect” is a phenomenon named after Barbra Streisand where attempting to censor or remove information has the unintended consequence of publishing that information more widely
d9lB TIL that when Anne Frank’s family was arrested, her father showed the officer her height markers on the wall to prove how long they had been hiding, and after the diary was published, the officer said, “I bought the little book last week, to see if I was mentioned there, but I was not.”