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TIL Stephen Colbert has four bug species named after him, grew up two blocks away from his future wife, and is an ordained minister

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5VWxR TIL that in 2000, thieves tried to steal £350 million worth of diamonds at an exhibition in London, only for the police to outsmart them by studying the Thames's tides to predict the date of the raid, correctly guessing the thieves would escape in a boat and therefore need the tide to be high.
Brw4x TIL that Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Benito Mussolini were all reported to have not simply disliked cats, but actually feared them.
vPp7B TIL a sculpture commemorating "Gangnam Style" was erected in the eponymous district in Seoul. It consists of two giant hands in the horse-riding gesture from the music video, and plays the song when people stand under it.
BgyjK TIL That John Wycliffe's body was exhumed and burned at the stake for heresy forty-four years after his death
6EjkY TIL one of the few times Pink Floyd allowed the music to be used for corporate advertising was a bizarre 1973 ad for Dole bananas.