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TIL Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.

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5Yk6D TIL Frederic John Walker aka Johnnie Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during WWII credited with 17 U boats destroyed. Walker's last duty was protecting the fleet from U-boats during the Normandy landing before his natural death attributed to overwork and exhaustion.
90lp TIL that 1989’s “Batman” soundtrack album was mainly composed by Prince, and is considered to be his 11th studio album, but since Prince had to agree to sign the publishing rights over to Warner Bros, none of the high-charting “Batman” songs appear on future hits compilations.
NXZkP TIL Necco Wafers were America's longest-running, continuously produced candy. First introduced in 1847, they were made continuously before a factory closure in 2018 ended their reign.
XE1NP TIL scientists didn't know where birds went in the winter until 1822. That year, a stork was seen in Germany with an arrow from central Africa lodged in its neck, having flown 3,000 km in its wounded state. This provided the final proof that birds migrate.
0woB1 TIL the SAT was developed by well-known eugenicist Carl Brigham, who claimed that Caucasians possessed the highest intelligence of any racial group.