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TIL cats, unlike dogs, cannot (for physiologically reasons resulting in blindness & death) be vegetarian

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780lL TIL that in 2017, an AI developed by Facebook created its own language to negotiate and communicate more efficiently, using shorthand phrases humans couldn’t understand. Researchers had to shut it down because the AI diverged so far from English, it was no longer interpretable
a8wLo TIL that stamps mimicking postage stamps but printed for promotional use by businesses, churches, political or non-profit groups are called Cinderella stamps as even though they are attractive, they are still seen as inferior by philatelists, much similar to Cinderella.
N7WnP TIL In 2007, a local Japanese railway station “hired” a cat named Tama as an official, helping the local economy bring in over 1 billion yen during her service. When she died 8 years later, thousands of people came to her funeral.
ad4o TIL Wikipedia has a page that details the lame edit wars that have occurred on the site.
9wY4m TIL that wilt chamberlain had more 70 point games than everyone else in nba history combined