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TIL Caterpillar Inc. (the machinery company) once sued a coffee shop in Santa Cruz, California called Cat and Cloud Coffee over their use of the word "CAT".

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JmrQ TIL Fiddler crabs are asymmetrical, with one claw being much larger than the other. In most species, when the big claw is lost, it regenerates as a small claw while the small one becomes the new big claw.
6KJW TIL that alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of the liquid and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
4XELw At least one-third of early deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian diet, Harvard scientists have calculated.
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