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TIL that due to the high intelligence of the octopus, the U.K. Has considered it an honorary vertebrate for the sake of animal cruelty laws.

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BrAnL TIL Katharine Hepburn only went to the Oscars once (despite winning four awards, more than any performer). In 1974, she came straight from her garden to present an award, still wearing a loose black gardening outfit. It had to be spray-painted backstage to hide the mud stains.
N71WE TIL Documentary Filmmaker Brian Fogle accidentally discovered the Russian State Sponsored Doping program while making a movie about how to beat doping tests. The movie is credited with helping start the investigation that ended up blocking Russia from competing at the Olympics since 2017
oBXrL TIL that a few years a couple in Bosnia discovered that they were cheating on each other, with each other. They had been chatting with one another on an online chat-room, without realizing that they were in fact speaking to their spouse.
wmaP TIL according to recent research, 87.2% of employees want to leave their current jobs in 2014, and 52.6% said that it was because they did not trust their boss.