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TIL the oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.

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4Nj6 TIL of Anatoliy Golitsyn a KGB agent who defected to the US in 1961. He claimed the Soviets planned a long term deception strategy to lull the West into a false sense of security by appearing to break apart predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall, formation of the EU and financial problems in the US.
j6QE TIL Woody Harrelsons Father was a contract Killer
wxP TIL James Cameron and Ridley Scott were working on a story for an Alien 5 movie until a Fox exec told Cameron, “We’ve got this really good script for Aliens versus Predator.”
m1nmv TIL fuel made from grass is called "grassoline"
M7XV7 TIL that the final bastion of ancient Rome was the Principality of Theodoro on Crimea which lasted till 1475. With the conquest of Mangup by Ottoman forces, the Principality was taking with it the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire, after 2,228 years of existence of Roman civilization.