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TIL that Vikings traveled with their cats and gave cats as wedding gifts

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mx5Wo TIL of Andy—a footless goose born in the 1980s who walked around in baby shoes. He rapidly became a huge star and appeared all over the media, before he was murdered in 1991. His death sparked a nation-wide outrage and a $10,000 reward for information about his killer, but the case was never solved.
RV01 TIL George Clooney is the only person ever to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
R5aQj TIL that people who attempted suicide have a shorter life expectancy by 11 years for women and 18 for men, and it’s surprisingly largely due to non-psychiatric disease
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