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TIL the black spots seen on white fur worn by royalty are actually stoat tails.

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rM6d TIL in 2015 a bus driver in India took a nap on his bus, only to be awoken to a monkey that had climbed into the driver’s cabin & had started the engine. As the driver ran to the cabin, the monkey panicked, shifted gears & jumped out. The bus rammed 2 other buses before the driver regained control.
R5MJQ TIL that in the 80s the famous computer scientist & futurist Ray Kurzweil, created the 1rst electronic music keyboard to replicate the sound of a grand piano and many other instruments.
4EPo TIL: While fighting in WWI, British soldier Henry Tandley spared the life of a wounded German soldier. The wounded German soldier ended up being Austrian corporal Adolf Hitler.
8eA9K TIL Ethiopia acquired 3 Electric Chairs for capital punishment, but did not have enough reliable electricity to use them in practice. 2 of the chairs were converted to become garden furniture, the remaining was used by their Emperor as a throne.
pYRZ4 TIL that the condition of lacking one or more limbs is called Amelia.