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TIL Over 1100 men died aboard the USS Arizona in the attack on Pearl Harbor. When a survivor of the attack passes away, they have the option to be interred inside the ship, to be buried with the rest of their crew.

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N7l7M TIL: Not all cats have vertical pupils in their eyes. The manul AKA Pallas' cat (Otocolobus manul) is a cute and somewhat stumpy-looking fluffy wild cat. Its eyes have round pulils rather than vertical slits.
kpY1 TIL the inventor of chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestle in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.
pX4O TIL in 2008, Bebo the popular social network was bought from its creators by AOL for $850 million dollars. It was then run into the ground and after 5 years the site filed for bankruptcy and was sold back to the original creators for $1 million dollars.
gLKX TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
rNLdd TIL there is a grizzly–polar bear hybrid, often called a grolar bear or a pizzly bear, a rare hybrid between a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and a polar bear (Ursus maritimus). These hybrids occur when the two species interbreed, typically in regions where their habitats overlap.