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TIL Cats can hold grudges for around 16 hours

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OonXL TIL Jesse James and his brother gave an indebted widow money to pay off her mortgage the day before the bank was to take her house and insisted she get a receipt for paying the man. They then robbed the banker on his way back to the bank.
MK6m TIL that Victor Salva, director of Jeepers Creepers and Powder, sexually abused (which he recorded) the 12 year old lead of his 1989 film Clownhouse. He served only 15 months in prison. The victim never acted again.
OoeP7 TIL the initial survivors of the Flight 123 crash died from delay in the rescue due to nearby American forces being told to stand down and the rescue party waiting until the next morning to begin the search
R9B4 TIL that a skyscraper in London has melted cars with focused light due to its parabolic shape.
788Ox TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack.