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TIL a cat named Oscar survived the sinking of three ships during WW2

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mXgR TIL astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping”
nWWkG TIL Justice Wilson was briefly incarcerated in a debtor's prison where he continued to be a Supreme Court Justice. He was in such debt that he largely abdicated his position on the Supreme Court for the last two years of his life to flee from creditors to who he owed money.
9wlmB TIL that relations between Joe Fraizer and Muhammad Ali were so bad, that at one point Fraizer said that Ali’s Parkinson’s was a punishment from God.
p8pYA TIL: Eating hamburger patties medium-rare is a lot more dangerous than medium-rare steak because of bacteria concentrations
40o5 TIL that ‘giant scorpions’ existed in prehistoric times. Evidence points to an almost 1m long amphibious scorpion with a stinger the size of a lightbulb called a 'Brontoscorpio’