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TIL a cat named Dusty gave birth to 420 kittens during her lifetime

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N1n1 TIL about Maharaja Alwar. During a visit to the Rolls Royce showroom in England, he was treated disrespectfully due to his race. He then proceeded to buy 7 rolls royce cars and use them for garbage disposal in his palace. Rolls Royce wrote him a apology and asked him not to tarnish their reputation.
6EmXQ TIL Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a member of the music group ABBA, was one of the Nazi “master race ” Lebensborn children
ADv1l TIL that the US once had a "postal savings system" in which post offices could essentially double as banks. Many countries have active postal savings systems. The US' was discontinued in 1966.
BrZjW TIL in 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key of the scandal wasn't morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man.
rRWo1 TIL the word quarantine comes from the Venetian "quaranta" meaning 40, for the 40 days that ships were supposed to stay off the coast in Europe to prevent the spread of the black death in the 1300s