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TIL: Two kittens, and three men, crossed the Atlantic on a raft made of 9 telephone poles in 1956. The kittens were given to the Duke of Bedford, the Queen’s cousin, and lived out their days in luxury.

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vJKL TIL that until the invention of the wall outlet, people had plug their electric appliances into an empty light bulb socket.
jR9E TIL Worcestershire sauce is made by mixing anchovies cured in salt for several months, onions and garlic pickled in malt vinegar for two years, then aged further in salt, vinegar, tamarind concentrate, and other spices
ADjO7 TIL about Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.
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eBY6 TIL in 1981 an LP titled “The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan” was released in the UK, the joke being that the record was completely silent on both sides. It sold over 30,000 copies.