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TIL the “I should buy a boat” cat is from a Bjork music video

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YGQW TIL in 2000 german satire magazine “Titanic” succesfully bribed the FIFA with “A fine basket with specialties from the black forest” in exchange for their support of the German bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
yod8 TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.
5YKKn TIL of King's Lomatia, whose entire species consists of 500 identical clones in a 1.2 km area of Tasmania. The 44 thousand year old clonal colony “doesn’t do sex” and is dying out despite conservation attempts.
VMV80 TIL the Black Death started in Hubei Province
78rp7 TIL the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was obsessed with the fear that the Japanese Meiji Emperor would convert to Islam and supplant him as Caliph