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TIL Winston Churchill gave his painting of the-Tower-of-Koutoubia-Mosque as a gift to President Roosevelt. It is now owned by the actor Bradd Pitt who purchased it for a world-record sum.

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6EpQY TIL that the Rainbow Shark isn't rainbow at all, and are usually a darker shade of black with red tips on it's fins. Furthermore, it's not even a shark, but a minnow with the appearance of a shark, thanks to it's dorsal fin.
5Vdkr TIL that Exeter Cathedral in England has a cat door that was carved in 1598; the cats were employed to keep down the population of mice, who came into the cathedral because the gears of clock were greased with animal fat
VBwe4 TIL during the US Invasion of Somalia (Operation Restore Hope) Navy SEALs swam ashore only to be surrounded by reporters who had been tipped off of the coming invasion by a Lieutenant General in a public briefing the day before
16MAV TIL that, until 1998, a Member of Parliament had wear a top hat to raise a point of order in the House of Commons.
YpjWZ TIL that King George V, on a visit to Japan, had a local artist tattoo a blue and red dragon on his arm in 1881.