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TIL that cats can recognize their owners voices, just never evolved to care

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mgvR TIL The Miss Universe Pageant Has Allowed Transgender Women to Compete Since 2013
nedbP TIL of Tommy Cooper who died while performing on stage... while the audience laughed
kOYZE TIL that one year the University of Chicago's annual scavenger hunt included the impossible task of building a working nuclear reactor, which one team did in their dorm room.
vyJR TIL: That if the same solar flare that hit the earth in 1859 were to hit today, it would cause TRILLIONS of dollars in communication and satellite disruptions and would be the largest natural disaster of all time.