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TIL that after fighting, giraffes have gay sex

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9YKoM Today I learned about a "Cat Organ", a hypothetical musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when a key is pressed.
WLMB TIL a plotline in The Simpsons episode The Crepes of Wrath is in reference to an actual event where Austrian wineries illegally adulterated thier product with an active ingredient found in anti-freeze.
5WyP TIL punk band The Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards to play their song “California Über Alles”. Instead they wrote a new song “Pull My Strings” to make a mockery out of the event and mainstream music.
x6vX0 TIL the Danish city of Aabenraa, the first city listed alphabetically on earth, refused to change its name after the Danish Language Board changed Danish spelling standards in the 1940s/50s because in Danish, ‘Å’ is the last letter of the alphabet
67D7 TIL that when the EU would unite its armed forces, it becomes the second largest army in the world