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TIL Cats can recognise their own name. But unlike dogs, they're just not as keen to show their owners what they've learned.

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wLX81 TIL during the first combat usage of the American Sidewinder missile in 1958, a dud hit an enemy plane and became lodged without exploding. The pilot returned to base, allowing Soviet engineers to study it and reverse-engineer a nearly identical missile for their own use.
QNgd6 TIL that John Marston is real
6EjyJ TIL Jimi Hendrix mainly played right-handed guitars that were turned upside down and restrung for left-hand playing.
p8xoN TIL that the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami killed 298 people and displaced more than 50,000 people in Somalia, a country on the Eastern Coast of Africa.
8eePK Today I learned that in 1973 Steve McQueen flew to the UK to discuss a film project with Oliver Reed and the two men went on a London pub crawl and got so drunk that Reed puked on McQueen.