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TIL Disneyland has a feral cat colony on the payroll.

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Y9RG TIL the clerk who approved Alexander Graham Bell’s patent over rival Elisha Gray did so after Bell helped him repay a loan to a friend (who happened to be Bell’s lawyer).
BgQd TIL that a Korean soldier during World War II was conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army, captured and forced to fight for the Red Army, then captured again and forced to fight for the Wehrmacht. Making him a veteran of three armies.
nd1Y TIL that a deaf 45 year old North Carolina man was repeatedly stabbed after he was walking down the street, signing to his friend and a gang member mistook their signing conversation for gang signs.
jNj7R TIL Akihito, the Emperor of Japan, is an scientist and still publishes papers to this day
ro80 TIL that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope originated in the late 1800s, when discarded banana peels were considered a serious public hazard