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TIL In the Oneida Native American language, the word "president" translates to "town destroyer"

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loJO5 TIL that at 12:00 a.m. on New Years Eve 2017, three men pulled off a 6 MILLION dollar jewelry heist only a half mile from Times Square and 7,000 NYPD officers. Police said the men waited till midnight, when the officers would be the most busy, to break into KGK Holding Jewelry.
e0l65 TIL Towser the Mouser was a tortoiseshell cat that caught more than 28,000 mice at the Famous Grouse Whiskey distillery in Scotland. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records as best mouser, and they have a statue of her at the distillery.
9P1M TIL Steve McQueen when he would sign up for a movie, would demand from the studio bulk amounts of jeans, electric razors, and other men’s things, so that he could donate them to the boy’s reformatory school he spent his teenage years in.
YporG TIL There is an exact scale replica of the Parthenon of Athens. Located in Nashville, the building was originally constructed of brick, plaster and wood slats in 1897 as part of an exhibition celebrating 100 years of Tennessee. In 1920, it was rebuilt with durable materials becoming an exact copy.
xVxbB TIL “Black Forest Ham” comes from the Black Forest region of Germany, where it was originally coated with beef blood to give it its dark color.