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TIL: That today (June 4th) is hug your cat day

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GA1ZQ TIL that in the 1940s, filmmaker Orson Welles was under investigation by the FBI as they believed he had ties to communist activities because of his film “Citizen Kane”. He was considered such a threat that the FBI had him on a list of people who should be apprehended in case of a national emergency
X6lX TIL human breast milk contains the same taste substance that makes meaty dishes taste savory (umami)
woXv8 TIL After Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, his half-brother Bartolomeo attempted to replicate his genius by fathering a son by a woman from the same village as Leonardo's mother. The boy, Pierino da Vinci, was raised in one of Florence's finest art studios but sadly died young.
DQVjj TIL Nicéphore Niépce was the inventor of photography, and the first photographer. He also invented one of the world's first internal combustion engines, an early bicycle, and the concept for a motor-cycle.
BgKOd TIL The handlers of drug sniffing dogs carry Narcan in case the dog gets a dose.