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TIL Binturongs or Bearcats smell likes buttered popcorn.

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awJL TIL Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard took a limo to cash his welfare check.
a8nm0 TIL. About the bearded vulture that subsists almost exclusively on bone. Approximately 70 to 90 percent of their diet is bone and they swallow bones as large as a lams femur whole.
wy58 TIL that in 1984 Cynthia Nixon made Broadway history by appearing in two Broadway plays at the same time. Her roles were short, and the two theaters were only two blocks away from each other, so she would run from one to the other. She was 18 years old.
BrMb TIL A drug called DCA has been shown to work in a small clinical trial on brain cancer patients. Drug companies won’t invest in it as it is unpatentable and therefore unprofitable. Entrepreneurs banned from selling it in the US
ZmmB TIL that the ampersand (&) was once the last letter of the alphabet. In latin the & was called “per se”. When reciting the alphabet people would say, “X, Y, Z and per se”. That last bit (“and per se”) eventually ran together to create the word, “ampersand”