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TIL cats become significantly more hypoallergenic if they are fed eggs from chickens which have had long term exposure to other cats.

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a94Z TIL the precedent set in the Supreme Court case of Wickard v Filburn (which allows the government to stabilize the market by destroying excess food) was used in Gonzales v. Raich to give the federal government the power to criminalize medicinal marijuana despite state laws which may make it legal
woV87 TIL - In 1948 the Mahindra car company struck a deal with Willy's Overland Corp., makers of the original WW2 MB 1/4 ton utility trucks, to make a model for the Indian market. This would eventually lead to the feud with Jeep-Stellantis over similar looking vehicles.
VOYZ TIL that companies can legally discriminate against people who smoke
KaJ9 TIL after his wife was denied access to a village well by upper caste members, an Indian man spent 40 days digging his own well by hand. It now quenches the thirst of an entire village of Dalit (lower caste).
0w9VA TIL that US president George H.W. Bush vomited on then prime minister of Japan.