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TIL people with 'outdoor' cats generally have lower income and lower educational attainment

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rR0dy TIL about William Breckinridge, a captain of the Confederacy who later renounced the views that led him to fight for them and became a racial equality advocate. He also represented blacks in court as a lawyer and was even noted by a black lawyer that he had helped many blacks in their law careers.
7ryBM TIL Celebrity Chief Julia Child helped develop a recipe for Shark Repellent during WWII
mLyx TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.
Xr4Q TIL that larger birds such as geese fly in “V ” formation, because the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own. Also, the geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
MQvA TIL a South African woman survived being raped, disemboweled and almost completely decapitated