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TIL that cats embed a high-frequency “cry” within their naturally low-pitched purr in order to exploit their owners

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R7NPa TIL that Adam Savage admitted he was mistaken, and that credit card companies had nothing to do with Myhtbusters not airing an episode on RFID chips
v1mO8 TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.
168rr TIL there are human trials for a teeth regrowth drug happening and if all goes well it could hit the market in 6 years
rrxM TIL that Bismuth has a half life a billion times longer than the universe
AD84a TIL That 0.4 percent of Iceland is covered by Alaskan Lupine, an invasive species brought in 1945 as ground-cover in a bid to ‘revegetate’ the country