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TIL Istanbul has a tremendous amount of stray and feral cats. Entire neighborhoods pitch in food and medical care for the native cats and there is a local belief, "If you kill a cat, you need to build a mosque to be forgiven by God."

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x6Le1 TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current
DNrg TIL that Stanley Lieber used the pseudonym, Stan Lee because he was afraid that associating his legal name with comic books would harm his writing career.
5VM4D TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.
p89jG TIL Jet Li has been fighting hyperthyroidism since 2010, it has prevented him from exercising and practising for a long time and has taken a toll on his body and appearance.
kOlZW TIL about the carnivorous spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today.