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TIL house cats are considered to be "semi-domesticated"

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M7BmK TIL that every dog testicle examined in a study contained microplastics. So did human testicles
nWKpo TIL that the rediscovery of the Fast Fourier Transform happened after John Tukey attended the Conference of Experts to Study the Possibility of Detecting Violations of a Possible Agreement on the Suspension of Nuclear Tests then begun looking for a reliable way of detecting underground nuclear tests
8mYL TIL the US Government has spent more on a single plane than 10 years of funding for the NIH
dDeJ8 TIL The 'Leap Day William' episode of 30 Rock was directed by Steve Buscemi.
d8yDQ TIL Cameron Crowe almost lost the opportunity to use “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel in the film Say Anything - Crowe got a call from Peter denying the usage because Crowe accidentally sent Peter and his label a screening of a John Belushi biopic, Wired. Peter liked it, but felt it wouldn’t work.