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TIL Pitched up tigers sounds like house cats

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M7GWV TIL in the 1630s, Cardinal Richelieu grew weary of watching his dinner guests pick their teeth with their table knives, grinded down the end, and invented the modern dinner knife
X0A8j TIL about the Guy West Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Sacramento, CA that is scaled-down replica of the Golden Gate Bridge
a8rGZ TIL: The National Institute of Health timed men ejaculating using a stopwatch to study premature ejaculation. They found the average to be 7minutes, but the range was 1 minute to an hour. The treatments suggested were using specific techniques, medication such as SSRIs, and sex therapy.
kJLOE TIL Jimmy Carter holds the record for most presidential pardons, pardoning over 200,000 Vietnam War draft dodgers. Least presidential pardons belongs to William Henry Harrison with 0.
evng TIL that a Dutch microbiologist Hendrik Jonkers invented a self-healing concrete that uses bacteria to seal cracks