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TIL it’s estimated Franz Kafka burned about 90% of his works. When he died he asked his friend to burn the remaining manuscripts (including The Trial) but his friend refused and instead turned them in for publishing.

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4ke06 TIL when Alexander Kerensky died in New York City in 1970, local Russian orthodox church refused to grant him burial rites for being a Freemason and seeing him as responsible for the Bolsheviks taking power. He was flown to London and buried in a non-denominational cemetery.
4mjN TIL that Pablo Picasso was questioned as a suspect when Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911.
9Y7vr TIL that sea otters have pouches under their forearms. In one (usually the left) they like to keep their favourite rock.
VBXR4 TIL about the Huolongchushui: A dual-stage ballistic missile fielded by the ancient chinese navy in the 14th century, during the ming dynasty.
wLQk1 TIL that a cat licking somebody may indicate that the cat thinks that the person is its responsibility and part of its family and so it treats the person the way its mother treated it. It thinks the person is his pet, rather than the other way round.