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TIL The Great Sphinx has a tail.

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dDgDZ TIL Thomas Jefferson briefly kept two grizzly bears at the White House after receiving them as a gift. They were later declared too dangerous and sent to a museum.
69e8l TIL panic was named after Pan, the Greek god of the wilds. The state of wild, mindless fear was believed to be a curse derived from his wrath, or even from his mere presence nearby.
Wl6N TIL of “Last Thursdayism”, the idea that the universe began to exist last Thursday, with everything (including our memories) all formed at the time of creation (last Thursday) in a state such that they appear much older
jNM0n TIL When USSR premier Nikita Khrushchev visited IBM's Silicon Valley research facility in 1959 he showed indifference to computing technology, but he was so impressed by their buffet style cafeteria that he instructed factories across the Soviet Union to implement the self service dining concept.
VBddm TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park despite being dead. He had a heart attack mid-race but remained in the saddle as his horse crossed the finish line. He is the only dead man to win a race and it was the only win of his career.