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TIL That Larry, the Chief Mouser of the Cabinet Office, has had his position fall under scrutiny due to both the competitive performances of the Chief Mouser of the Treasury (Gladstone) and the Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Palmerston), and his own “lack of killer instinct”.

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oXe7 TIL The term lesbian comes from an ancient greek island called Lesbos. She is believed to be the earliest documented gay or bisexual woman and was born in 615 BC. Sappho was a poet and a playwright but her works were destroyed in the fire that burned down the Library of Alexandria
WkAOd TIL of Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)- Located in the Western Desert in Egypt, this site contains the fossilized remains of whales that show their evolution from life as a land-based animal to becoming an ocean-going mammal.
R7gR1 TIL that the first Rambo movie contains only a single kill from Rambo
QB7L TIL Neil Armstrong had pieces of the propeller and wing of the Wright Brothers’ Wright Flyer in his pocket as he took mankind’s first steps on the moon.
QJYMX TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.