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TIL of Walter Chandoha who photographed more than 90,000 cats in his lifetime, nicknamed "the one cat photographer to rule them all."

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epex6 TIL Canada’s bill C-16 which was passed in 2017 can result in jail time for people who purposely misgender others.
OoQxe TIL about corriearklet, the word describing the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven’t, to avoid the embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
ayeo TIL of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese unarmed military observer with the UN during the Rwandan Genocide. Alone and against orders, he used his UN vehicle to ferry hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus to safety, bluffing, bribing and begging his way through checkpoints manned by génocidaires.
GWwg TIL the man with the deepest voice in the world can hum far lower than you can hear.
K7MQ TIL: Concerned about the censorship of human genitalia on extraterrestrial messages, one MIT researcher recorded & transmitted the sound of a ballerina’s vagina contracting. The transmission was intercepted & cut off by the US Air Force but parts of it managed to reach two stars in 1996 & 1998.