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TIL that James Jameson of Jameson Whiskey once arranged for cannibals to eat a slave girl in front of him, whilst he sketched the whole incident.

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8aXW4 TIL that by the time komodo dragons reach adulthood, they wear a suit of armor made of tiny bones. These bones cover the dragons from head to tail, creating a “chain mail” that protects the giant predators.
Wa7A TIL that most, if not all, white cats with blue eyes are deaf. In white cats with mixed colored eyes, deafness affects only the ear on the blue-eyed side.
6xrl TIL: John Clem joined the US Army at 10 years old and at 12 shot and killed a Confederate Colonel who demanded his surrender earning his promotion to Seargent becoming the youngest NCO is US Army history
4X44o TIL A man caught a baby that fell out of a window in Detroit in 1930. A year later, the baby fell again and the same man caught the baby again. The baby and the man were unharmed.
rrN1 TIL that there are more dedicated electric car charging stations in Japan than there are gas stations.