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TIL : Physicist FDC Willard made his Siamese cat a co-author on a paper because he accidentally put the pronoun 'We' throughout the paper and couldn't be bothered to change it to 'I'.

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ayML TIL Despite of being an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Fred Rogers never talked about religion on television or on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
oRejr TIL in 1977, Ali Maow Maalin was the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor small pox. He fully recovered and later became one of the 10,000 volunteers who participated in the effort to help eradicate polio in Somalia. Ali died in 2013 from malaria.
8evJX TIL Emergency vehicles use a device that manipulates traffic signals to reduce response times and avoid collisions with traffic
prvG TIL the term “meme” was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins as a method of explaining how cultural traits are passed on and popularized
QX1e TIL, in 1949, India sent the Tokyo Zoo two elephants to cheer the spirits of the defeated Japanese empire.