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TIL Boston Police officers cared for a stray cat named "SWAT Cat" for 3 years; when the calico cat went missing, Officer Pietroski, (15-yr veteran of BPD), worked after hours to build a "kitty condo" including a large deck & sliding glass doors. The cat returned and moved into the new home.

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Wkeko TIL about glow-in-the-dark kitties. Scientists insert the GFP(green fluorescent protein from jellyfish) gene along with another gene that blocks feline AIDS, into the cat's unfertilized eggs. When the eggs are fertilized, glowing cats are produced, which means that they also have the anti-AIDS gene.
oBdJo TIL Over The Course Of One Year, This Guy Managed To Film 7 Episodes Of A Soap Opera At IKEA Without Getting Caught
epjPD TIL UK teenager Olivia Farnsworth has a rare condition known as chromosome 6 deletion, which causes her to not feel hunger, pain, or a sense of danger. She is the only known person in the world who possesses all three of these symptoms together.
0ExR TIL in his will George Bernard Shaw provided for a competition to invent an alphabet better suited to the English language than the Roman alphabet. The resulting alphabet is called the Shavian alphabet and is supported by Unicode.
epWKb TIL: In 1993, a Russian lunar rover (Lunokhod 2) that has been on the moon since 1973, was sold to Richard Garriott for $68,500