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TIL one in every 30,000,000 calico cats is a male that can reproduce.

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awMJy TIL that Nero didn't play a fiddle while Rome burned in 64 A.D., bowed string instruments wouldn't appear in Europe for another 800 years. However several sources place Nero on the roof of his palace during the fire, dressed in stage garb and singing from the Greek epic “The Sack of Ilium.”
7rwaZ TIL In 2018, over 300 people drowned in Germany. The drownings have been linked to 'parents phone fixation.' In the past, parents spent more time with their children in the swimming pool. Increasingly, parents are fixated by phones and not paying attention to their children.
6X8 TIL that there is a Tetris sequel called Welltris which is three dimensional and much harder.
loY47 TIL That photons do not experience time. They "hit" something the same instant they are created, regardless of how far they travel, from their own perspective.
5V4vD TIL the entire town of Times Beach, MO was rendered uninhabitable in the 1980s after a single dust mitigation contractor tried to get rid of highly-toxic dioxin by adding it to engine oil and spreading it in all the town's gravel roads. Today the town is Route 66 State Park.