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TIL that animals have accents!

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low7r TIL after his 13 year old daughter Jenifer was killed in a one-car accident in 1986 riding with a friend, George Strait stopped doing interviews for many years to avoid talking about her death
kJnj4 TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 playing blackjack, and kept the company afloat.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
BggWd TIL that the topic of the first ever radio communication on board an aircraft in flight, was a cat. In 1910, Kiddo the cat snuck on board an airship, and ended up travelling with the ship during its entire 71-hour journey. Kiddo was adopted by the daughter of one of the airmen.
R5w6w TIL Phill Lewis (Mr. Mosby from the Sweet Life of Zach and Cody) was convicted of manslaughter and driving while intoxicated in 1991