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Today I learned about a "Cat Organ", a hypothetical musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when a key is pressed.

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1axLV TIL that Marvel's X-Men, and mutants in the Marvelverse in general, have been depicted as metaphors of RL social issues (esp. LGBT and the Legacy Virus = HIV arc).
YGOd TIL Karl Marx’s last words were “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
vPYA4 TIL that there is a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”
4XJBa TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful
R55bw TIL Jim Carrey went through Navy Seal torture training in order to play the grinch.