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TIL about the ‘cat organ,’ a hypothetical musical instrument consisting of a line of cats with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard, causing them to cry out when a key is pressed.

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grxK8 TIL Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.
8adYP TIL in 2008, a Swedish amateur photographer, Tomas Langton, accidentally helped solve the murder of a 10 year old girl when randomly testing his new camera. He photographed the victim, Engla Hoglund, at 2:16pm and the killer following in his car, 42 year old Anders Eklund, one minute later at 2:17pm
W7ZR8 TIL Modern capital letters are derived from a style called uncial. This style was developed by monks when writing manuscripts because of its ease to write in.
dJAZ TIL Jesse James once gave a widow he was staying with $1400 to pay off a debt collector. He told her to give him the money and get a receipt. James then hid and waited for the debt collector to leave, and then robbed the man as he left the widow’s home.
nePvb TIL During Operation Ivy Bells (wire tapping Soviet underwater communication lines) the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was almost lost during one of the missions—she was stranded on the bottom after a storm and almost had to use her self-destruct charges to scuttle the ship with her crew.