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TIL: Cats Can't Taste Sweetness

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5wAn TIL this man owed $134 in property taxes. The District of Columbia sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on his $197,000 house and sold it.
wL9NE TIL there are certain foods astronauts can't eat in space, including bread because it lacks the right structure and shelf life, soda, because the carbonation is affected differently, and salt and pepper, because they act differently in microgravity
AGaa TIL Traci Johnson, a healthy 19-year-old college student volunteer enrolled in a clinical trial for the antidepressant Cymbalta and shortly after hung herself at the testing facility.
kkB7 TIL that the trick from “Office Space” and “Superman III” of stealing tiny fractions of a cent from a large number of transactions to stealthily accumulate a stolen fortune has a name: salami slicing
yJmV TIL David Bowie, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Bernard Shaw, And H.G. Wells, Among Others, All Declined Knighthood