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TIL 5,200 tons of space dust falls on Earth every year
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TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.
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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.
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TIL that lobsters communicate by peeing on each other.
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TIL that in 2011, the IIHS crash tested two 1973 Chevy Impalas with airbags and the airbags performed flawlessly despite their age and early technology.
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TIL In 2012, while incarcerated at ADX Florence, Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) received an invitation to the 50th anniversary reunion of his Harvard graduating class. He responded, listing his occupation as " prisoner " and his eight life sentences as " awards.