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4X7mg TIL the world’s tallest cat scratching tower is over 32 ft tall and weighs over 10 tons.
NXxRE TiL bees like to 'play' with balls. A study shows bumble bees went out of their way to roll wooden balls repeatedly despite no apparent incentive. Younger bees rolled more balls than older bees and male bees rolled them for longer than female bees.
gKJb TIL Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams hated each other while filming The Notebook
p8REO TIL of a 12-year-old boy named Santos Rodriguez who on July 24, 1973 was killed in Dallas by a police officer, Darrell Cain, while being interrogated with his brother about "theft of change from a soda machine". Cain was conducting Russian roulette on the brothers to force a confession from them.
60XJ TIL that in order to keep the project a secret, the British army used the innocuous name “mobile water carriers” for a motorized weapons project - which is the reason we call them “tanks”.