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TIL Cats Sleep For 70 Percent of Their Lives

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m1YEo TIL the Green Bay Packers are owned by a publicly held non-profit, the only NFL team of which this is the case
5j9P TIL 37% of Americans plan to work until they get too sick or die
rRDx4 TIL that parents in the UK can rent baby clothes at an affordable cost, instead of buying them and giving them away a few months later!
VBEW4 TIL about the Surf Nazi subculture. Although surf boards with swastikas on them had been sold since the 30s, the movement did not gain much notoriety until the late 50s through the 80s. Many Surf Nazis believed in localism - an ideology promoting hostility towards outsiders/non-white surfers.
1Xp7 TIL that Canada won the last ever Olympic Lacrosse Gold Medal, in 1908, and are therefore still the reigning Champions. In fact, they are the ONLY gold medalists ever in the sport.