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TIL: There is a Single Street in a Residential Neighborhood in Newport Beach, CA that is Zoned to Allow Kennels to Operate

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yWm8 TIL that 10-20% of Americans and a higher percent of Europeans are infected with a brain parasite from cats that makes them 2.5 times more likely to get in a car accident, changes personality traits, contributes to schizophrenia, and may cause sexual attraction to cat urine.
OGa97 TIL that when steam locomotives needed to refill their water tanks on long journeys, they would sometimes make use of water troughs built directly on the tracks. The engineers would lower a scoop into the trough as the train drove over it, refilling the tanks without needing to stop.
Lk9Y0 TIL about Starlite, an enigmatic material of unknown composition that can, among other things: keep an egg cool after it was blowtorched for 5 minutes, ignore a plasma cutter capable of cutting a foot and a half of steel, and has had its properties verified by several governmental entities.
78MMO TIL that the term Bushwacker describes a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, War of 1812, American Civil War.
eQok TIL An underage drunk girl at Chilliest 2015 got herself out of a ticket by winning a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The 3 police officers let the girl go after she beat scissors with rock but they ended up getting in trouble when witnesses posted Vines and the videos went viral.