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TIL about Stubbs, the mayor cat of Alaska, who drank catnip water out of a wine glass every afternoon.

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d8597 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope a woman of colour from Columbus, Georgia, who owned her husband as a slave. During an argument she sold her husband to a neighbour, when she was ready to reconcile he wouldn't sell him back.
NXG4N Til that in response to Buffy Sainte-Marie's anti-war song "The Universal Soldier", Jan Berry of Jan and Dean released "The Universal Coward", his critique of anti-war protestors. Dean Torrence objected to the song and refused to sing on it.
KOpwR TIL that before trees (~400 million years ago) the Earth's landscape was dotted with 24ft tall, 3ft wide mushroom spires called Prototaxites
ne7kr TIL The term "rocket-propelled grenade", though frequently encountered, is a backronym of the "RPG" from the translation of Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт (Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot) Russian for "handheld anti-tank grenade launcher" and not based on a true literal translation.
OGJaY TIL the Latin motto for the Kingdom of Naples (1282 AD - 1806 AD) was Noxias Herbas, meaning "Noxious herbs".