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TIL scientists have created glow-in-the-dark cats by inserting the jellyfish protein that codes for bioluminescence into their genome

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R7XP7 TIL that first responders are often given a stork pin to wear on their uniform to commemorate assisting with a birth in the field.
ne0Ld TIL that Russian License Plates use Cyrillic Characters, but only the ones that look like Latin Characters.
ADGvx TIL The song 'Splish Splash (I Was Takin' a Bath)' came to be because the songwriter was challenged that they couldn't write a song that began with those first 7 words.
NXVNb TIL New Mexico is older than regular Mexico by over 250 years. It was not named after the country, but in fact both take their name from the ancient Valley of Mexico which was the heart of the Aztec civilisation
mx0xv TIL about the Bodo skull: a 600,000 year old early human fossil from Ethiopia. Cut marks on the skull indicate the individual was scalped with stone tools almost immediately after death.