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TIL that domestic cats kill 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 - 22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States.

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m1ZJM TIL that the Marquis of Queensbury once told Oscar Wilde "If I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you". Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight".
407R TIL the original Ghostbusters trailer featured a 1-800 number, not a 555 number, which led to a prerecording of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. They got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.
Wr18 TIL detoxication and purging with any juice fast kick or detox box is a marketed misleading concept which got no scientific medical evidence.
x7BB TIL there is a form of Kryptonite, known as Pink kryptonite, that can turn Superman gay.
XAr TIL that c800, the Muslim scientist al-Jahiz developed a theory of evolution involving natural selection and passing on of successful genes