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TIL that a cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975

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P1aAn TIL that the religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children, so they can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker community as of 2020, although they gained a single new member in 2021.
WJZX TIL humans aren’t appropriate prey for great white sharks because their digestion is too slow to cope with the high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.
WjKB TIL that “spaghetti” is actually the plural form of the word. An individual strand is referred to as a “spaghetto”
vP447 TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s
xNrw TIL:There is a character in the X-men comics who has been on the team for years but, due to his power everyone except professor X would forget about him.