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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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neGOr TIL that in 1885, James Whitcomb Riley wrote and published a poem called "Little Orphant Allie", based on a little girl he had met named Alice (nicknamed Allie). Due to a typo in the published version, her name was misspelled as Little Orphan Annie, and this name became a much more famous character.
WkNj9 TIL the disclaimer that now appears at the end of every American film, (“The preceding was a work of fiction, any similarity to a living person etc.”) first appeared because Rasputin’s assassin Felix Yusupov successfully sued MGM for libel against his wife in the movie “Rasputin and the Empress”
oBZ8r TIL Martin Luther King Jr. said he experienced far more hatred in Chicago than he ever did in Alabama or Mississippi. King took part of the Chicago Housing Movement in August 1966 with thousands of local whites jeering, throwing bricks, and displaying Confederate and Nazi signs all over the city.
VMxkp TIL the game of checkers dates as far back as 3,000 BCE, with boards and pieces having been found in the ancient city of Ur. Checkers artifacts have also been found in ancient Egypt, dating back to 600 BCE.
PYkAV TIL Although the Greek philosopher Pythagoras is most famous today for his alleged mathematical discoveries, he cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born