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TIL cats aren’t born with the instinct to kill for food or eat their catch. Mother cats have to show them.

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NXwEe TIL that December 11 is the most common breakup day of the year, with Christmas causing couples to reflect on whether they want to continue with relationship.
YpDKv TIL For a 40 yo woman, the chance that annual mammograms give a false alarm is roughly 50/50 and the chance that the false alarm leads to unnecessary mastectomy is greater than the chance that a curable cancer is treated and prevents death. (1.1 vs. 0.16%).
wrN8 TIL only 29 people were caught trying to board planes with marijuana at the Denver International Airport in 2014, and all were allowed to board their planes after throwing out the weed.
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
Y7JOB TIL Sylvester Stallone met Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky (1976), while the latter was an inmate at the prison where the Stallone film Lock Out was shot.