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TIL that at night, Disneyland has several feral cats living on the park that they use to catch rats and mice on the park grounds. Disney now treats them like pets, by spaying and neutering them, giving them shots, and having feeding stations set up for them.

LQXkd TIL that some whirlpools(eddies) in oceans can be as big as 90 miles (150 kilometers) in diameter.
16Z9W TIL about The Twilight Zone Accident in 1982 where a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash decapitated actor Vic Morrow and two children who were on the ground, and injured six helicopter passengers.
XEXVQ TIL in September 1940, British pilot Ray Holmes saved Buckingham Palace from being hit by German bombing, when he used his Hawker Hurricane to destroy a Dornier Do 17 bomber over London by ramming but at the loss of his own aircraft (and almost his own life)
yQveX TIL that Chicago PD operated an off-the-books interrogation warehouse until 2015, wherein >99% of cases lawyers were shut out and detainees were denied access to phones. The precinct refuses to release reports between 1995-2004, as dealing with the physical copies would be "too burdensome"
Wk10B TIL that in 1938, 25 students and a school bus driver were killed when a school bus driver didn't check for a train at a crossing. As a result all school buses stop and open their doors to look and listen to assure no trains are coming. As a result no such tragedies have since occurred.