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TIL animals can get drunk from eating fruit that has dropped from trees that has fermented

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N7AGb TIL The movie As Good As It Gets translates to Mr. Cat Poop in Hong Kong. Apparently, it came from the main character's name "Melvin", which is pronounced very similarly to the Cantonese colloquial word for cat poop.
R7Wbl TIL Sicilian feline, Vituzzo (aka Vito), is the first Italian cat to get prosthetic legs. After his hind legs were crushed by a car in Milan and had to be amputated, he got permanent leg implants spring-loaded with joints. (This comes on the heels of British cat Oscar, the 1st ever bionic cat).
OokW1 TIL "Pulling out all the stops" comes from organ-playing meaning "bring into play every rank of pipes"
awAP9 TIL a Scottish woman named Maggie dickson, was sentenced to execution by hanging on 2nd sept. 1724, she survived the hanging and climbed out of her coffin as it was being transported. The courts ruled she was a free woman as the punishment had been carried out. Known after as 'half-hangit maggie'.
X0JLk TIL that there is an annual wife-carrying competition in Finland where the winner will be given the prize of beer equivalent to the wife's weight