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TIL that most cats are lactose intolerant so giving them cow's milk can actually cause significant health issues

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M7R4K TIL that in 2005 The Journal of Clinical Investigation published an article titled "Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible" because of "reckless" comments made by Cruise where he stated that psychiatry is a "quack" field and postpartum depression is pharmacologically untreatable.
ragd TIL In 2012 the voters of Cook County in Illinois once again voted to keep a clinically insane judge on the bench. Judge Cynthia Brimm has had multiple hospitalizations following courtroom psychotic breakdowns and refuses to take her prescribed anti-psychotic medication.
yQZQp TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who’d accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle’s briefcase out of a window because he mistook it for a bomb, and criticised Terry Gilliam’s table manners because he was American.
KObMB TIL the purpose of a bong is to immediately cool the smoke by passing it through water, resulting in a smoother toke.The water also filters out any ash that might otherwise blow into your mouth or airway.There’s also a certain amount of tar filtration that goes on. This is why the water turns brown
JXPm TIL that the Soyuz 11 depressurised 168km above the earch killing the 3 man crew. It was not found that they were dead until the re-entry vehicle was opened, the ground crew even attempted CPR on the crew members even though they had been dead for hours.