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TIL that someone has written cat-face-detection software named ‘kittydar’

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VGg8 TIL Mother Teresa was criticized by the medical press for her view on ‘suffering’, which she enacted at her 'Home for the Dying’ in Calcutta, with her position being “I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot… the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
KO7m9 TIL about the Goiânia accident, one of the worst nuclear disasters. Fascinated locals began playing with glowing dust after opening a stolen radioactive capsule: lighting it on fire, applying it to their bodies, & consuming it. Up to 112,000 may have been exposed, & some died.
KYlWJ TIL that Gall wasps lay their eggs inside growing acorns which cause abnormal bumpy growths on the outside of the acorn while also protecting the Gall wasp larvae inside throughout the winter
a80XA TIL that Ken Griffey Jr. and his father Ken Griffey Sr. were teammates when they both played in the MLB for the Seattle Mariners
GAg77 TIL: there are ~1500 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan and over 6000 in the Great Lakes combined.