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TIL In the town of Aleppo, a man named Mohammad Alaa Jaleel has been maintaining a cat sanctuary, taking in over 100 cats displaced or abandoned during the Syrian Civil War.

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VBW1k TIL that 'Ambiancé' was an experimental film with an expected run time of 30 days. A 439 minutes long trailer was released in 2016 and the director said that he would destroy the only existent copy of the movie, once the film's initial screening was completed. The entire movie is still unreleased
P7Nw TIL Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei has a harem of forty women, including a former Miss USA who sued the Sultan for keeping her and other women as sex slaves but lost the lawsuit after the Prince claimed diplomatic immunity
j6Gjv TIL during Operation Desert Storm planning, it is found out that many squadron have same callsigns. There's 5 Blades, 6 Broncos, 10 Claws, Demons, Dogs, Dragons, Ghosts, 13 Cobras, 9 Cowboys, Razors, 7 Daggers, Huskies, 14 Eagles, 11 Falcons, with the most is Raymonds, being 26.
AZRo TIL Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez was shot 7 times, had 28 shrapnel holes in him, was clubbed by a rifle, slashed by a bayonet twice before he left the battlefield. When mistakenly identified as dead, he spit blood in the medic’s face
aKky TIL that a manufacturing defect saved a mobster’s life. A car bomb detonated under Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s 1981 Cadillac Eldorado, but GM installed a metal plate under the driver’s seat in that model to correct its balance, protecting him from the explosion. (‘Casino’ (1995) depicts the bombing.)