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TIL that two original Andy Warhol pieces are lost because they were destroyed in during a drunken first date at a Houston injury attorney's mansion

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YpYQP TIL oilman Charles Hipp owned a beloved pet lion named Blondie in the 50s. He even tried to register her in a children's fishing tournament one year.
78YrP TIL there is a stable population of rhesus macaque monkeys in central Florida. They were released on an island in a swamp as part of a jungle cruise attraction in 1938, but escaped the island because the tour operator didn’t know they could swim.
4k8m5 TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium folliwing World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.
WkoP4 TIL that Stalin's Granddaughter works as an antique dealer in Portland, has tried her hand at stand-up comedy, and is involved in the local EDM scene.
NWwb TIL the kid that played Jack in Hook and “Kid” in Dick Tracy (Charlie Korsmo) quit acting, got a degree in physics from MIT, graduated from Yale Law, passed the Bar, became a lawyer, and is currently teaching law at Case Western.