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TIL Joseph Stalin’s granddaughter is a gun-loving antique shop owner in Portland, Oregon and a Buddhist.

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5YPWQ TIL of "Cat Pawsitive," a program which encourages cat shelters to teach orphan cats to do a "high-five" with humans, making cats more attractive for adoption. Over 400 cats who participated were adopted during the first two semesters of the program.
b997a TIL that a family lived in the Siberian wilderness for over 40 years without human contact.
m110v TIL that despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the movie Fargo, saying it was a true story, the movie was for the most part not true. It only took parts of other true stories, one of which became the wood chipper scene.
neVA9 TIL that Mister Rogers was bullied as a child. "I used to cry to myself when I was alone," he said. "And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano." As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the "essential invisible" within them.
6EV8 TIL: some mathematicians want to do away with PI