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TIL zoologist Francis Buckland kept the remains of a cat under his bed at Winchester College, dug up and ate a dead panther from a zoo (declaring the meat "not very good"), and took his pet bear Tigleth Pileser to a meeting at Oxford University dressed in a cap and gown.

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nen0B TIL that Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater in 2 hours. He assured his commissioner that he had been working on it, but in reality he hadn't started. When his commissioner suddenly announced he would be visiting, Wright drew the plans in the time it took the commissioner to drive up.
dDpBr TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer at age 16. He performed in a circus alongside a lioness named Sheba, whom he described as “very sweet” and compared to a dog.He took the job one summer before becoming an actor, saying, “Who’s going to turn that down?”
YpmNr TIL of The Citizens of the Reich, a group of some 17,000 Germans, who believe that the 1937 borders of the German Empire still exist, who do not accept the legality of the Federal Republic of Germany, who refuse to pay taxes, and who are gathering weapons to bring down the federal government.
ZpRbo TIL That in 2007 the state of Minnesota passed a law that took effect on January 1, 2008 making it illegal for retailers to sell American flags that aren't made in the USA
oRYYL TIL: The Army developed a weapon concept after being inspired by a Pokémon episode in 1998. The weapon was designed to produce large scale seizures with a range of hundreds of meters. It can incapacitate people for up to 5 minutes. The Pokémon episode that inspired it caused 700 seizures.