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Today I learned that the Count of Sesame Street is close to two million years old...and still counting!

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M7kl8 TIL that aloe vera is toxic to cats. Ingestion of aloe vera can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain in cats, and in severe cases, can lead to liver damage.
Ay17 TIL the reason water feels as it feels when it touches the skin is actually a complex electro-chemical reaction. The sensory inputs are a combination of the pH of your body and the water, the temperature of your body and the water, atmospheric pressure, and molecular polarity.
a4KZ TIL that in 1932, a small Austrian town greatly reduced unemployment by issuing a new currency that would automatically lose 1 percent of its value for each month that it went unspent. Hundreds of towns in the U.S. set up similar systems, but in 1933 President Roosevelt outlawed them.
N74DE TIL people are more likely to cheat on their spouse when they are on a diet due to willpower being an exhaustible mental resource.
gMW9 TIL Google has a “unsupervised” neural network that learned what a cat was while searching the Internet