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TIL The Count made Liam Neeson count to 20

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rRXAx TIL: There's a Toyota Corona
nwlo TIL in 2014 a cat was badly burned in a house fire that left him blind. He needed over 24 operations and a 1.5 year stay in an animal hospital. Despite his injuries, he offered comfort to every new animal to enter the clinic: fawn, dog, hamster or bird, by snuggling beside them on arrival.
vPYZ7 TIL about William English Walling, wealthy grandson of the 1880 Democratic vice presidential candidate who became a trade union socialist and co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois
1a7gr TIL jesters were asked to tell bad news to the king that no one else dared deliver. The best-known example was in 1340 after the French fleet was destroyed by the English. The French King's jester told him the English sailors "don't even have the guts to jump into the water like our brave French".
4Bbo TIL that if a window is tilted 45° to match a gable roof line, it’s called a “witch window” because witches are said to be unable to fly their brooms through a tilted window.