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TIL in 2018 a mom put out an ad to borrow an orange cat so her kids could have "a lasagna dinner with Garfield" and succeeded

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6EOx8 TIL Mohammed Baparape Ali, the crown prince of Benin, has been living in Emmen, the Netherlands, for the past 3+ years, working as a caretaker of the local park. His family wants him to come back and be king, but he wants to stay in Emmen.
gMArL TIL The Solar System can never come into perfect alignment. The last time they appeared even in the same part of the sky was over 1,000 years ago, in the year AD 949, and they won’t manage it again until 6 May 2492.
7rdnM TIL about “spreading depolarization”, a scientific phenomena where the human brain continues to emit brain waves after the heart stops, for several minutes even. When Anne Boleyn was beheaded her detached head reportedly tried to talk.
WkyvB TIL there was a lunar eclipse during the Siege of Constantinople in May 1453
ner5P TIL that in 1474 a rooster was put on trial because it laid an egg and the villagers thought that it made a pact with devil. He was found guilty and burned alive and it was later found out that the rooster was a hen that just looked like a rooster.