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TIL no species of cat can both purr and roar

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nWwKW TIL a 2012 study compared a nation's chocolate consumption to the number of Nobel prize laureates per capita that it had and found an incredibly close correlation between the two. Countries with the most Nobel prize laureates per capita consumed the most chocolate. Switzerland finished first in both
R5ld7 TIL in 2005, a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey and 1500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died and the rest survived by landing on the soft big pile of sheep.
R7nL1 TIL that people that buy bottled water are spending between 240 and 10,000 times the cost of the water, depending on the brand of the bottle.
R7kMl TIL that the word "essential" in "essential oil" doesn't mean "important," but rather "the essence of". So oil of clove smells like clove, capturing the "essence" of the plant, and therefore can be called an essential oil.
OoEng TIL that in 1987 students from Caltech changed the Hollywood sign to read CALTECH