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TIL cat burglars across Europe have been know to pump anaesthetic gas into victims residences via the AC unit.

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LQd8V TIL that Vince Guaraldi, who composed the music for the Peanuts TV specials, was good friends with The Grateful Dead. He appears on the back cover of their album Aoxomoxoa (sitting on a horse), and supposedly played with them as a temporary keyboardist in the early 70s.
kJxMe TIL that German chocolate cake was invented in Texas
E1lOp TIL in the manga One Outs (1998-2006), A team used camera to steal opponent's signs and used drums to communicate the signs to the players. Almost exactly the same scheme was used by the Houston Astros more than 10 years later.
R7LgQ TIL that George Foreman started boxing at age 17. He won an Olympic gold at 19, turned professional at 20 and became the heavyweight champion of the world at 24. He later regained the heavyweight title at 45.
8adPK TIL there are at least 17 satellites like the Hubble Space Telescope. They are spy satellites pointed at Earth and Hubble is basically built from spare parts.