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TIL scientists have considered genetically modifying cats to glow near radiation to warn future generations of nearby nuclear waste, and wrote a song to help people remember.

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VBVdQ TIL: Not only is there a percent (%) and a per mille (‰), but there's also a permyriad (‱) for smaller ratios/changes
6ErgJ TIL Cryovolcanoes are volcanoes that erupt water, ammonia, or methane. They don't exist on Earth, but they are present on colder planets and moons like Pluto and Ceres.
xga0 TIL of the HNLMS Abraham Crijnnsen, a dutch warship that evaded the Japanese during world war 2 by planting trees all around the ship and sailing close to islands. So the Japanese wouldn’t think it was an enemy ship but part of an island. The ship was the only one of the fleet to return.
DQ75Y TIL: Yotsuya Kaidan, the most famous Japanese ghost story of Oiwa has a tradition that when Prior to staging an adaptation of Yotsuya Kaidan the principal actors and the director makes a pilgrimage to Oiwa's grave and ask her permission and blessing for their production.
VMRWB TIL Robert Wagner is a person of interest in actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death. The captain of the boat admitted that he lied to police & that Wood & Wagner had argued the night she drowned & that Wagner had prevented the captain from turning on the search lights & contacting authorities.