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TIL that an increase in how much your older cat meows can be a sign of Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS), a disorder similar to dementia in humans.

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Oo6g TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan is writing a series of albums dealing with science so as to get more people hooked on science.
A9K4 TIL less than a month after the first traffic light went operational, it exploded and killed the unfortunate traffic cop who was operating it.
8a6x4 TIL that for a period of time in 2010, Ozzy Osbourne was the health columnist in the British Sunday Times
6Eg0Y TIL almost all the stones/rocks used in the sport Curling is from the small uninhabited Scottish island, Ailsa Craig. The only other source of the stones is a quarry in Wales.
06OL TIL In 2012 a biotech startup succeeded wildly in turning seaweed into ethanol biofuel but went bust because seaweed is worth almost twice as much as ethanol