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TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless Quaker who preached in the late 1700’s-early 1800’s

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XdMD TIL The CIA spent $20 million in the 60’s training cats to spy on the Soviets. The first spy cat was hit by a taxi.
BrLre TIL that these rectangular plates on sidewalks are to warn people with vision impairment that they are about to walk out onto a street.
EgJyw TIL about the Voyager Golden Records, two vinyl records included aboard the two voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, that contained sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them.
4Z4J TIL that when the Greek ships reached the beach of Troy, no one would jump ashore, since there was a prophecy that the first Greek to jump on Trojan soil would die. Odysseus tossed his shield on the shore and jumped on his shield so the person who was tricked into following him would die instead
R5Vbj TIL one of the Japanese airmen who attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 is still alive.