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

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8byV TIL that 42% of the world’s opium users are in Iran.
9wx5B TIL in 1969, the illegitimate son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, who had met his father for the first time only two years before, went on a shooting rampage on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring 16 and killing 5, including his wife and himself.
ZKmo TIL Bill Murray has been in every Wes Anderson film since 1998.
Zpgvv TIL about the Chapati movement of 1857 in India where thousands of flatbreads were mysteriously distributed across North Indian villages. It is still a mystery as to who did this and why with both local Indians and the British assuming it was the other's doings
wowNY TIL in 2000 a middle school student was ordered to pay his teacher $500,000 after creating a hate site about her that included a photo of her transforming into Adolf Hitler