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TIL A cat, named Pwditat, approached the family dog Terfel and seemed to sense that he couldn’t see. Using her paws, she coaxed him out of his basket that he had been afraid to leave and led him out into the garden. Today, the unlikely pair is inseparable as she serves as Terfel’s seeing-eye cat.

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rNlXx TIL of a 24hr long art film called The Clock. It is a looped montage of scenes from film and television that feature clocks or timepieces to make up an entire day. Its screening is always synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time of the viewing.
1aGLr TIL that if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type a strong sense of impending doom will likely occur.
XE8pP TIL that the voice of Batman on TV was done by the diminutive actor, Olan Soule. Soule had a great voice that belied his small stature, and had worked in radio for years. Early on, he was typecast, usually as a lab tech, hotel clerk, or even a reporter. He voiced Batman for 15 years.
XQXP TIL The movie Waterloo included 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2, 000 cavalrymen as extras. And to recreate the battlefield , the Russians bulldozed two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings.
jNAYX TIL that during his presidency Richard Nixon set up the "Political Enemies Project", with the purpose of compiling a list of people that he didn't like, and "use the available federal machinery to screw them". The list even included celebrities like John Lennon, Bill Cosby and Steve McQueen.