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TIL there were sailor cats, which traveled aboard ships with the task of eliminating rodents.

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DQg9v TIL of the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall , her daughter Melanie Griffith and Noel's two sons. It has been described as "the most dangerous film ever made" in which they used wild, untrained animals. Although no deaths occured, numerous serious injuries did.
pk1b TIL that Frank Buckles, the last surviving soldier of World War I, lived for 110 years and died in 2011. When asked about his secret for long life, he simply offered, “When you start to die… don’t.”
VD0B TIL John D. Rockefeller was worth a modern equivalent of $336 billion.
Moam TIL Prophet Muhammad taught that cats are creatures to be cherished and loved. Also, His cat was called muezza.
nedGY TIL about the Coelacanth deep-sea fish, called the "living fossil". It was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until it was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938.