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TIL that cheetahs have such bad anxiety, that some zoos will assign emotional support dogs to them.

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04KA TIL Mary Tyler Moore once offered a restaurant $1000 for a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
YRaP TIL The Samson Option is a hypothetical plan in place by Israel for a massive nuclear strike against its enemies and allies if the entire nation’s existence is threatened.
RwQ8 TIL there are Catholic Patron Saints for caterpillars, astronauts, hardware stores, invincible people, things that go BOOM, the fear of wasps, coffee houses, unattractive people, TV writers, taking exams, and the Internet
v1bnD TIL the common expression "OK" didn't exist prior to 1839 and was coined as a joke. In the writing of the time it was popular to make fun abbreviations similar to our OMG or even TIL, and "OK" was one of them.
KY8Qw TIL that the shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).