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TIL the Iranian and Polish peoples have had a close relationship ever since Iran welcomed Polish refugees in WWII

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v1wkB Today I learned that cats don’t perceive music the way we do. Kitties have different acoustic, vocal, and heartbeat ranges than us. And there's music made specifically for them such as Cozmo’s Air composed by a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin.
AVan TIL Ultimate sci-fi fan and literary agent Forest J Ackerman kept every story ever submitted to him. He once showed up at a Stephen King book signing with a manuscript King had written when he was 11.
E1egw TIL in Finnish folklore, most Gods and Goddesses appear as married couples with equal or overlapping realms, and thunder is caused when Ukko, the god of skies, and his wife, the earth mother Akka, are having sex
KOaMa TIL that, over the last 30 years, investing in LEGO sets have had 11% better returns than gold, stocks, or bonds.
wL1nY TIL that the Nazi Party's identity politics led them to marginalizing Einstein's quantum physics as "Jewish Physics", which ironically prevented Nazi Germany from pursuing an effective nuclear weapons program.