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Today I learned that cats don’t perceive music the way we do. Kitties have different acoustic, vocal, and heartbeat ranges than us. And there's music made specifically for them such as Cozmo’s Air composed by a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin.

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nWjb7 TIL Ernest P. Worrell (Ernest Saves Christmas et al.) & Vern were originally created by advertising company Carden & Cherry to promote various local and national brands. Due to the commercials popularity, an Ernest television show and ten movies were made, knowwhatimean?
9Yaom TIL, that first person to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation was actually a girl: Ada Lovelace. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
G50N TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to recieve a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases yo.
695E7 TIL at one point the sport of Jai Alai was a gambling alternative to horse and greyhound racing in the US and grew a following in Florida. Today only one fronton, the arena in which it's played, remains in the state.
QJ0we TIL about a case study in which a cortically blind man was shown pictures of faces. He couldn’t explain what he was seeing, but the part of the brain that responds to threat and arousal spiked when he was shown pictures of faces that looked like they were staring at him.