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TIL Cats Sleep For 70 Percent of Their Lives

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nbbb TIL that the most possible money you can win on an episode of Jeopardy is $566,400.
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
oxAR TIL that red bell peppers are simply fully ripened green bell peppers. Yellow bell peppers, however, are different cultivars.
Me9Xm TIL that Groucho Marx and T.S.Eliot were fond penpals but hadn't met because life got in the way. When they did at last meet for dinner at Eliot's house, it didn't go well. All that Groucho wanted to talk about was Shakespeare and The Wasteland. But T.S. Eliot wanted to hear about Duck Soup.
XEx18 TIL that the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed around 50 words that have to do with the natural world, in order to replace them with more "modern" words for today's tech-savvy children. Some of the removed words include acorn, dandelion, heron, newt, and otter.