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TIL that cats and dogs prefer to listen to species-specific music that sounds grating and unnatural to the human ear. They may not like ordinary human music!

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XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.
4XOmo Researchers have created a llama-inspired mega protein capable of neutralizing 59 different strains of influenza.
kOAlB TIL: With a practice dating back to the 16th century, there are still some banks in Italy which accept wheels of Parmesan as collateral for a secured loan with favourable terms
8aZAL TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just 2 of dozens of Japanese cities subjected to massive incendiary attacks. Firestorms leveled almost 100 square miles in Japan's three largest cities (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya) alone. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions forced to evacuate.
M7xLa TIL that Spain cheated in the Paralympics, sending multiple players without disabilities to the games