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TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House

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a89xb TIL author Harper Lee once said she regretted writing “To Kill a Mockingbird”, stating to writer Marja Mills, “I wish I’d never written the damn thing.” When Mills subsequently asked her again a few years later, Lee still seemed to express doubts. “Sometimes,” Lee replied. “But then it passes.”
LQxQr TIL: There is a universe in the spiderverse in-which Spiderman was a T-rex called "Pter Parker"
4kDow TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.
61ZJ TIL that wearing a condom with holes (while having sex with your wife), is the only method to collect a sperm sample that is morally acceptable to the Catholic church.
7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.