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TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes owned the first Siamese kitten to reach America.

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gr0n8 TIL bees can recognize human faces. Despite their tiny brains, bees can remember and recognize human faces using a similar process to humans, which helps them identify friends and foes.
yVZpX TIL As a tribute to John Lennon after his murder in 1980, Queen released the song “Life Is Real”. Freddie Mercury wrote the song to capture the essence of John’s work, with a melancholy piano arrangement and deep lyrics.
8aJ4G TIL that a man named George Wright in 1972 hijacked a plane and disappeared. He was then on the run for 41 years until he was captured in Portugal.
Zn6B TIL that the man from the “Technoviking” video sued the creator for violating his ‘personality rights’ 13 years later, taking all his earnings from the video/merchandise and sending him into debt. The creator had to crowdfund for a documentary about the video to get out of debt.
jN6PX TIL in 2002 a man managed to convince 30 people to quit their jobs and leave their homes to appear on a year long reality TV show that never existed.