People Are Sharing Uncommon Facts On ‘Today I Learned’, Here Are 40 Of The Most Interesting (New Pics)

In 1968, in a teary farewell, students at Elysian Heights Elementary School bade goodbye to their beloved furry feline friend -- named Room 8, for the room he entered by an open window in 1952. A fixture at the school for 16 years, the celebrity gray-and-white alley cat had posed for countless pictures, including one that was emblazoned on school T-shirts. Room 8, the unofficial school mascot, became the subject of a school mural; a sculpture and several poems etched into the sidewalk in front of the school; a TV documentary called "Big Cats, Little Cats"; and a 1966 illustrated children's book called "Room 8," written by the school principal, Beverly Mason, and teacher Virginia Finley. Royalties from book and T-shirt sales went to the library fund, and a trust fund was set up in Room 8's name at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital. Students who once decorated his newly dug grave with handpicked flowers have returned to the pet cemetery over the years to say their "hellos."

Room 8's grave and the touching elegy on his tombstone https://www.thegreatcat.org/room-8/

Teachers pet!

A kind person probably took him home for the Holidays

*graciously allows the internet soft can-openers to make songs and stories about her*

What a fabulous idea! This should be everywhere.

In germany once you entered the street on green light you are entitled to cross the street on your own pace and most drivers respect it here.

That's good because there's no grace period there once the green man goes dark.

In my area of the US, we get 15 seconds. But good for them!

Hope handicapped people get a card as well. Wonderful idea

They offered but it was declined, for a good reason : Notre Dame had already been scanned multiple times by specialists who have much more detailed and technical models of the cathedral. It’s a good gesture by Ubisoft but not really useful.

Origins was so intuitively detailed that they discovered a previously undiscovered tomb in one of the pyramids

And it generally is a very good game.

Oh wow, that was very sweet! Did they accept?

A big thank you to the Kutenai people!

Why don't they leave the sturgeon with their eggs in the river and let nature take its course? Why do they need to harvest the eggs?

Kootenai tribe: you have my utmost respect. Sturgeon are one of my two favorite extant fish. They are living fossils. Their various species have witnessed an unimaginable amount of geological and biological history

That is amazing!

now protect your wolves!!

This was a famous early example of citizen science.

Even before this, PS3s originally came installed with "folding at home", which when running would transfer the PS3's computing power to assist with this same kind of project

It was unsolved for 50 years and was thought to be unsolvable. It was cracked (destroyed, should I say) by Google's AI AlphaFold, in 2020 I believe.

Now that is cool!

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I wonder how many of science’s problems need a non-scientist perspective to decipher.

that's how I get home every day apparently...

This happens to be all the time. I'll get on a stretch of highway and drive for several minutes and then not remember driving through an area. Always different areas, but it's annoying. Glad I know why now.

So that's why sometimes I feel like I drive on autopilot

That's because the brain tends to form lasting memories of only novel events, discarding much of the rest (like, the normal occurrences of driving). This is why I (now 70 years old) have always kept a journal, and why, when I occasionally re-read it, my memories often don't match what I wrote.

My car knows the way home

so they do not make that noise...? der-dunt.... der-dunt.... der-dunt.der-dunt.der-dunt..?