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TIL the first cat to be cloned was named Copycat.

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NlBQ TIL that there are two bald eagles who have nested in a large, government owned tree in Washington DC. Their names are Mr. President, and the First Lady. Their two children are named Freedom (elder) and Liberty (younger). God Bless America.
DEAY TIL that Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan’s journey from Earth to Mars took 6 months, which is less than Christopher Columbus’ first journey from Europe to America (8 months)
KOY1B TIL While on the run the once drug lord Pablo Escobar burned two million dollars to keep his family warm at an unpowered mountainside hideout.
KY0AR TIL the story of William Tell shooting the apple on his son's head was punishment for refusing to submit to an official. Tell would be executed if he didn't hit the apple with a crossbow bolt. Tell drew two bolts, and hit it with his first shot. The second bolt was to kill the official if he missed!
nPY7 TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.