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TIL Cats love green kalamata olives. They contain a compound similar to that in catnip.

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ANWZ4 TIL of Picher, OK it was a lead mining town that became a superfund site.
e0Mk TIL the Australian Boab tree is so large and hollow that they were once used as temporary holding cells for Aboriginal prisoners
51wP TIL “Contagious shooting” is the name for the phenomenon when one person in a group shoots, the entire group starts shooting (even if they don’t know why they’re shooting)
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5oED TIL that one of the more common crossword writers for the New York Times, David Steinerg, is 19 Years old. He was first published in the NYT when he was 14.