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TIL The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams and comedian Stephen Fry purchased the first three original Apple Macintosh computers available in Europe. It started a lifelong friendship

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JWnQ TIL a man cut his truck open after hearing a purring noise come from his parking car and found a stray kitten had lodged itself in the frame. He carefully drove to a Humane Society, where the cat was safely rescued. The Society set up a fund to repair his car, with extra money to help other animals
b6Qa4 TIL that Henry VIII only publicly acknowledged one of his illegitimate children, Henry Fitzroy (Fitzroy being a Norman name translating to “son of the King”), set him up in an estate, and made him Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
jNRkN TIL one of Brigham Young's sons was a drag performer
oBWoW TIL that in 1997, dockers in Oakland, Vancouver, Yokohama and Kobe refused to work a scab ship from Liverpool in solidarity with 500 Liverpool dockers who were sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. There is no confirmation of what finally happened to those containers.
X0neE TIL in the 1960s, gym students at La Sierra High School in CA, faced grueling physical challenges and were ranked by their shorts color: white for rookies, gold for elites, and Navy Blue for the rarest. Navy Blue required 34 pull-ups and carrying someone 5 miles. Only 19 students ever earned it.