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TIL Cats have whiskers on their front legs

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9wd0B TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher
NPAM TIL The Shroud of Turin has nothing to do with Jesus - it’s been comprehensively radiocarbon dated to the medieval period.
Bg65d TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in to scare away the smaller monkeys.
dPbr TIL that Joseph Weizenbaum, one of the founding fathers of Artificial Intelligence, later became one of it’s leading critics when he found his secretary getting very emotionally involved with ELIZA, a chatbot that he himself programmed.
nenYo TIL Violent games can lower stress and make you less violent (as long as you're having fun)