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TIL a cat miraculously survived the sinking of three separate ships in World War Two, earning the moniker “Unsinkable Sam”

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kJpKW TIL: Tom Selleck was accused of stealing ove One Million gallons of water for 63-acre California avocado farm in 2015. Selleck and his wife eventually agreed to pay a settlement to the sum of more than $21,000.
MeeP8 TIL 9th November is known as the ‘day of fate’ in German history- on the same day, Robert Blum was executed in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918, Hitler’s Munich Putsch occurred in 1923, Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
oZ9W TIL that a woman once sued WalMart for 2 cents and won.
W7pYX TIL about anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin that was popular in the 19th century.
p8QQG TIL Starfish can drop off their arms when they feel threatened. Some species can even regenerate themselves from a single arm, as long as there's a small portion of the central disk, and some also reproduce that way, simply splitting in half to become two individual starfish.