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TIL: Cats Can't Taste Sweetness

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epgaE TIL the first chemotherapy drug was derived from mustard gas
p4KN TIL: Mozart could pirate music at 14 by illegally transcribing it. He was so good at it, the Pope changed the law.
9YDmB TIL that in 2013 the Taliban denounced The Daily Beast for false reporting and violation of the basic rules of journalism because of an article that said they were seeking peace in Afghanistan.
xkPo TIL warning signs for our nuclear wastes today need symbols which can be understood by the future generations without the assumption that knowledge can be passed to them, and taking into consideration the possibility of human civilization crumbling away.
4Xbvg TIL a lost play by Alexandre Dumas was discovered in the French National Library archives in 2002