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TIL About Unsinkable Sam - The Cat Who Survived Three Sinking Ships During His Naval Service In WW2

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xV0v5 TIL that in the early days of rock and roll, country music was often non-derisively referred to as "hillbilly" music. After country artists incorporated rock techniques into their own style, they created a new combination of rock and hillbilly that came to be called Rockabilly.

0wRaL TIL that in Brazil, you are not generally expected to be on time to social engagements, unless someone specifies “English Time”. Outside of Western Europe, US, Japan, and Korea, punctuality largely does not have high importance.

ADw17 TIL bowhead whales are the only baleen whales native to Arctic waters, and their thick triangular skulls are designed to crack through ice.These whales are considered the longest living mammals and can live for 200+ yrs.Specific mutations in their DNA give these whales enhanced resistance to cancer.

7rRAZ TIL of a "Bezoar", the accumulation of ingested material such as hair, fur or fiber in the stomach that forms a large stone. Once prized as magical items with protective properties. There was a gold-framed bezoar in the Crown Jewels of Queen Elizabeth I as recently as 1962.

jOMv TIL: In 1994, Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan decided to invest $100k of his new GNR money in local Seattle companies, including an expanding chain of coffee shops, a software company and an online book seller - Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon.