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TIL that a cat’s purr can actually promote healing — its frequency (around 25 to 150 Hz) can help heal bones and tissues.

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KYjBJ TIL eradication of screwworms in the 60-80s has saved North/Central American farmers and estimated 1.3 billion USD annually.
kOj0d TIL Stephen King's debut as a movie director was to make a film based on a short horror story he wrote about killer cars. He did the whole film coked out of his mind before swearing never to direct again.
1aDGd TIL that Norway either has or is planning to merge it's two northern counties, Troms and Finnmark, into a new county, Troms og Finnmark
GXb1 TIL: Urine on a jelly fish sting doesn’t do any good. It’s better to splash the stung area with salt water.
1abPW TIL about the Bushy Tree diagram, a retrospective and interactive history of visual interactive computing systems