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TIL Cats cannot taste Sweet! If they go after your ice cream the cat either likes the cool or the fat likely.

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eDMn TIL When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of Schindler’s List, Williams was so moved that he told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”
W7GkY TIL that according to an estimate by astronomer Simon Driver, there are about 70 sextillion stars (or 70 thousand million million million stars) in our observable universe.
p8prZ TIL the famous Rokeby Venus painting was attacked by a suffragette with a meat cleaver in 1914. She stated that she wanted to destroy the most beautiful woman in mythological history, in protest against the government for destroying Emmeline Pankhurst, the most beautiful woman in modern history.
neMod TIL that the average reaction time of a fly is ~20-50 ms, compared to the average human reaction time of 250 ms
NBBQ TIL nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed details of Israel’s nuclear capabilities to British press in 1986. Mossad agents abducted Vanunu from Rome and he was secretly taken to Israel and sentenced to 18 years on charges of treason and espionage following a secret trial.