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TIL that in recognition of their “formal attire,” tuxedo cats are the only felines admitted to the Metropolitan Opera

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P18rJ TIL milk jugs have those circle indentations for structural support, lower production costs and to allow changes in volume.
D1JGJ TIL a herpetologist is one who studies amphibians and reptiles, and there once lived a man-eating crocodile named "Gustave"
4Xx6X TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on June 28th 1914, an event which led to the beginning of the war. Strangely, the Archduke's number plate read: A 111 118, a series that can be read as, Armistice 11 November '18.
j6J5X TIL In 2012, a woman found her ex-boyfriend living in her attic 12 years after breaking up with him.
KYv0J TIL "Aunt Jemima" was a woman named Nancy Green, an American slave who was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark becoming the advertising world's first living trademark