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TIL: 65-85% of white cats with two blue eyes go deaf.

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4XaKX TIL inmates at Riker's Island are paid $1 an hour to bury unclaimed bodies on Hart Island. I also learned that Hart Island is a place in NYC that used to house an insane asylum for women, city jails, and a "reformatory for vicious boys."
vPPNx TIL about the movie "Saved from the Titanic," released just 31 days after the disaster. It starred an actress who'd been aboard the ship and wore the clothes she'd worn the night it sank. Reportedly traumatized by reliving the tragedy, she quit acting soon after. The film was lost in a 1914 fire.
rRBbo TIL that a fully-preserved dinosaur tail, still covered in delicate feathers, was found. It is 99 million years old.
68BQ TIL That America has 19 aircraft carriers. Compared to the rest of the worlds combined 12.
KYZ8Q TIL that Sirius B, the smaller star of the Sirius binary system, has a little more mass than the Sun while being slightly smaller than the Earth.