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TIL Cats seek solitude when they are dying.

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YpaMG TIL Mark Hamill was cast in the original pilot for the television series Eight is Enough. He was locked into a five-year contract, however he requested to be released so he could audition for Star Wars.
wB4Y TIL That Grover Cleveland had cancer and had surgery in secret on his yacht. This was to avoid the stigma about cancer at the time.
kOdQB TIL that a physician and sexual predator named John Schneeberger successfully foiled several DNA tests by surgically installing a tube in his arm filled with someone else's blood and then tricking the lab tech into taking the blood sample from it.
xgob TIL it took over a full day for people to realize what had happened at Chernobyl and to begin an evacuation.
wLK98 TIL of Civil War General John Sedgwick. After his soldiers began ducking for cover, Sedgwick rode into the open and declared "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance", before being shot and killed by an enemy sharpshooter.