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TIL Flossie, recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest living cat at 29 years old, is deaf and has limited eyesight. 1995 to now

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gMXM9 The earliest English word we have a record of was discovered during an archaeological dig near Norwich, England in the early 1930s. It was written in an ancient runic script carved on the bone of a deer: "raihan."
b6B4j TIL of the Medieval candle time clock, before electricity, a nail was placed at certain places on the lengths of the candle and people would hear the nail hit the ground when lit, letting them know a certain amount of time had passed.
m8NE TIL that Mozart was obsessed with poop, a fact widely acknowledged by scholars.
yVB5J TIL that there is little evidence that antioxidants in the diet prevent disease. Some antioxidant supplements actually increased lung cancer rates in smokers, while others increased rates of heart failure and stroke.
JJAm TIL In 1999, Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose-Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.