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TIL- People who are owned by cats are 40% less likely to die of a heart attack.

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1aAvW TIL of the “weepy voiced killer” - a serial killer who would call police after his murders & cried down the end of the line about what he had done. He was caught when a woman he stabbed 15 timed escaped by smashing him over the face with a bottle.
Eg6Po TIL Tiger Woods has a total of 20 hole in ones in his career but he went a full 2 decades between numbers 19 and 20 (1998-2018).
GljN TIL the first movie that had zombies caused by an engineered plague was Things to Come, ca. 1936
OpXR TIL: When Carthaginian explorer Hanno reached the Ivory Coast ~600-500 bc, he thought Gorillas were a race of humans and tried to capture some. He ended up killing them for being too violent and took their skins back to Carthage to put on display.
DvnP TIL that the emperor penguin can dive to a depth of 1,850 ft (565 m) - deeper than any other bird, and deeper than the operational range of most naval submarines