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The cat as the witch’s familiar in the 17th century, woodcut. Mary Evans Picture Library From the 12th century onward there were…

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QNLlk TIL that Sir Winston Churchill was such a big lover of the Italian blue cheese Gorgonzola that during WW2 he forbid British troops to bomb the city of Gorgonzola and its dairies.
jZRE TIL The Great Pyramid is aligned with Machu Picchu, the Nazca lines and Easter Island along a straight line around the center of the Earth
Wkp44 TIL that Sam Houston was removed as governor of Texas for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America.
X0rBk TIL that the family of Colonel James E. Sabow who allegedly committed suicide might have actually been murdered due to his findings of Drug trafficking operations on Marine Corps Base El Toro in 1991.
rRPQy TIL that at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, where John Wilkes Booth is buried, visitors often leave pennies (which feature President Lincoln's face) on the Booth family monument.