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TIL a cat named Moon Unit disappeared from a London New Year’s Eve party in 2007 and was found eight years later—in Paris.

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9w59G TIL that there is a "witch window" also known as a "Vermont window," found almost exclusively in Vermont. These slanted windows are installed at a 45-degree angle in the gable-end wall of a house and are designed to prevent witches from flying into the home on their brooms.
l708r TIL that while cleaning up from the World Trade Centers falling, crews found a shipwreck 7ft below the foundation that dated back to 1773
rNvd TIL That the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland were actually good for the environment, as the volcano emitted much less CO2 per day than the planes it grounded.
e0no4 TIL that John Steinbeck, when asked if he deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature, replied: "Frankly, no."
rRmW4 TIL researchers from Texas State University left a human corpse on a 26-acre woodland site to study how human bodies decompose in the wild. They ended up capturing the first image of a deer eating human remains.