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TIL of the Seven Sutherland Sisters, who had a combined length of 37 ft of hair and traveled the world as a curiosity and to promote their hair growth products. They grew up in poverty, made millions, lived an extravagant and squandering lifestyle, and the last of them died destitute.

EXkx TIL: There was a machine in the 1940s that kept a dogs decapitated head alive and reacting to external stimuli. The whole thing was also filmed and broadcast on TV.
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
11EP TIL that in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI’s moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979.
wLNaM TIL about Owney the Postal Dog! He was a terrier mix that captured the hearts of railway postal workers and rode the trains with them. They even awarded him medals for his service - so many that they filled his collar and a little harness, special-made. Owney was a very good boy, indeed!
KODp9 TIL That a rat king is a collection of rats who’s tails have been intertwined and bound together. They grow together and eat together and sometimes when one of them dies they eat it together. There can be up to 32 rats in one rat king.