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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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1p9V TIL that famous ring announcer Michael Buffer has earn over $400 million from his trademarked phrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!”
b9Kjj TIL that in 2013, police in Sayre, OK were testing new sonar equipment in Foss Lake. They found two submerged cars containing 3 bodies each that had been missing since 1969 & 1970. Police later concluded all were accidental drownings w/ no foul play.
9wLpp TIL the sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals is called Spawn
QJ18e TIL of Richard Pavlick, a retired postal worker who slipped past the Secret Service on a mission to assassinate president-elect JFK in 1960. Pavlick decided not to attempt the assassination because he did not wish to harm Kennedy's wife and children.
6EdEQ TIL of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta who reported on government corruption and money-laundering. She died in a car bomb attack close to her home on 16 October 2017, and her last words were "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."