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TIL Ugandan dictator Idi Amin full (sell-bestowed) title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”

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N7Qp6 TIL In St. Petersburg, Russia, The hermitage Cats have been protecting the Hermitage Museum’s priceless art from rodents since the Museum opened its doors in 1764. The museum has a press secretary dedicated to the cats.
yVd68 TIL currently total global wealth is $450 trillion USD, US government debt is $34 trillion, and the richest 120,000 people in North America have a combined $15 trillion in total wealth.
Ggwj TIL the BBC Concert Orchestra w/conductor Charles Hazlewood performed Tchaikovsky’s “1812” overture using nothing but junk yard scrap and it was impressive!
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pY4wG TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'”