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TIL that white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. This condition is called "Congenital sensorineural deafness in cats" and quite common.

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x6Lrg TIL that former NFL coach Jimmy Johnson attended high school with singer Janis Joplin in Texas. There, he and other jocks at the school relentlessly bullied Janis by groping her and spreading rumors around school that she’d slept with their friends because she "looked and acted weird."
e8g4 TIL a man is suing Ferrari for damaging his reputation by not selecting him to buy one of their cars.
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