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TIL an Alaskan city has a cat for a Mayor

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lor75 TIL the Battleshitts scene in Harold and Kumar was authentic shit sounds. "Sound engineer Jeff Kushner looked for recordings of bowel movements, but couldn’t find the “richness” he wanted, so instead he hid in a truck stop bathroom with a boom mic to capture authentic bowel moments."
vG4L TIL a Canadian Research Firm has developed Invisible Camouflage, and is sharing it w/ the U.S. Government.
grZL4 TIL The oldest person alive is 116 and was born in 1907
gMNnD TIL That before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people would keep live brown frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. It was found that the secretions made by the frogs basically act as antibiotics, killing bacteria, and keeping the milk fresh and safe to drink.
EgZEV TIL that Blind People Can process speech up to 3x times faster(25 syllables per second at Their Best!) in comparison to Normal Individuals. This is because their brain is able to repurpose their visual cortex to enhance their auditory sensing capabilities.