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TIL an Ohio woman was sentenced to spend a night in the woods without food, water and entertainment for abandoning 35 kittens

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p8YYO TIL many vessels have a figure of a bare-breasted woman on the bow of the ship because her nakedness would "shame" an angry sea into calm.
M7Nj0 TIL: “EGOT” is an acronym that was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas. It gained wider recognition after being introduced on the comedy series “30 Rock”
1pgO TIL that Bill Hicks’s parents, worried about his behavior, took him to a psychoanalyst at age 17 but, according to Hicks, after one session the psychoanalyst informed him that “…it’s them, not you.”
NaGQ TIL that TBS speeds up shows up to 9% to gain extra commercial ad time
KV5J TIL in 1978, a US Navy ship was attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Nearly all of the cuts found on the sonar dome contained remnants of sharp, curved claws found on suction cups of squid tentacles. The claws were much larger than those of any squid that had been discovered at that time.