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TIL there is growing body of scientific research showing that reliance on GPS erodes our ability to make our own mental maps.

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b9Ev4 TIL A cat in New Zealand tricked two different women into owning him. Neither knew they had the same cat until after he went to the vet for stitches. The cat got to keep both names as well as both owners through a shared custody agreement.
d9Rr TIL the Kaaba was built in 2130 BC and was a site of pilgrimage for 2,700 years before the rise of Islam, including for Arabic Christians and Pagans
oAp8 TIL a fan brought a huge marijuana tree to Snoop Dogg while performing at a festival in The Netherlands and accepts it while free styling about the plant.
jNZ5v TIL Kobe Beef in the U.S. is basically a huge sham
rNN80 TIL in 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created a very early precursor to fiber-optic communications, the Photophone, a device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light.