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TIL Timothy the tortoise served as a mascot on HMS Queen during the bombardment of Sevastopol in 1854. She was, until her death in 2004, the last surviving witness to the Crimean War.

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R5Dk1 TIL why the NFL has the 2:00 warnings at 2:00 and not 1:00 or 3:00 minutes left. Iā€™m 44 BTW. After 20+ years of watching NFL games I never even cared to wonder why. šŸ˜†
E1QxX TIL: Apophenia is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. This includes pareidolia (seeing a face within an inanimate object) and the Gambler's fallacy (seeing patterns in random numbers that appear in lotteries, card games, or roulette wheels).
oRWKE TIL today in 1974 a U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House
XkG8 TIL Coldplay turned down multi-million dollar contracts from Gatorade, Diet Coke, and Gap, who wanted to use their songs. Their response: “We wouldn’t be able to live with ourselves if we sold the songs’ meanings like that.”
v1RAj TIL Sarah Winchester, widow of the founder the Winchester Company, built a confusing mansion to ward off the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. At its zenith the house consisted of over 200 rooms, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, 2,000 doors, several trapdoors, and multiple spy holes.