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TIL cheetahs don't roar but they meow.

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OGJAX TIL Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone are the only two actors in history to have starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades.
epMOL TIL there was a British sitcom centering on Hitler and Eva living next door to a Jewish couple. The show was canceled after one episode.
m1xAO TIL Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
Mg18 TIL that Peter the Great implemented a beard tax in hopes of modernizing Russia. People who payed the tax were given a token that said “the beard tax has been taken” and “the beard is a superfluous burden”.
R799w TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.