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TIL: We now have facial recognition software for cats.

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VBddm TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park despite being dead. He had a heart attack mid-race but remained in the saddle as his horse crossed the finish line. He is the only dead man to win a race and it was the only win of his career.
9Y0eG TIL about Julian Mathias Buchwald a man who made his girlfriend think that they had been kidnapped by a satanic cult for six days, all so he could convince her to have sex with him.
R5WNw TIL Frank Hayes, a jockey, died of a heart attack during his final horse race but still won. Unexpectedly, he suffered the attack mid-race, yet his body remained on the horse, crossing the finish line first. Sadly, it was his first and only win throughout his racing career.
OGkp4 TIL Erica Pratt, a 7-year-old girl abducted in Philadelphia in 2002, freed herself from the basement of an abandoned house in less than 24 hours by chewing through the duct tape that bound her and breaking through a screened window to call for help.
kJngd TIL Grant Imahara died on July 13, 2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured, previously undiagnosed, intracranial aneurysm. Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm. Later he worked on Mythbusters and the White Rabbit Project and was a special effects engineer for many Hollywood productions.