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TIL: Scientists have been using little crochet hats to help better study cats that suffer with chronic pain.

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ANG1n TIL Eric Carmen's (to me, Celine Dion's) "All by Myself" snagged its melody from Rachmaninoff's 'Adagio sostenuto', the second movement of his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18'.
6EpJ TIL that a boy born in 1783 had two heads, one on top of the other with the second head upside down so that the neck stub was up in the air. The second head had a fully functional brain.
LkB4v TIL Thomas Paine introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income in 1795. [Government must] create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling.
x687o TIL that there was a 22-year-old Indiana boy named Brock Meister who survived a cancerous brain tumor and a car accident-induced internal decapitation (when the spine and skull fully separate from each other). The same neurologist also treated him for both life-threatening conditions.
MewoV TIL of Chicago's Leather Archives and Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM history and culture and making it more accessible to the public.