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6ERPY TIL Ian Fleming took the name for his James Bond character from an ornithologist James Bond. He explained to the real Bond's wife he needed unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name. The real Bond did not learn of the identity theft until the early 1960s when the 007 books became popular.
x68Ao TIL John Tyler and his second wife (Julia Gardiner) had a Presidential male canary named Johnny Ty who died of a heart attack after they tried to breed it with another male canary
N7rnQ TIL Handwriting experts suggest Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death and reinvented himself as the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had noble manners, spoke several languages, and claimed to have forgotten his past.
DYKv TIL a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum.
wGP7 TIL No existing species of tree can grow higher than 130 meters (427 feet) as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher due to pressure.