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TIL of Merlin a cat capable of purring 67.8 db(A) loud - about as loud as a vacuum cleaner

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YpAAA TIL that Homer Simpson’s catchphrase, “D'oh!” had no official spelling for several years, and was instead written as “(ANNOYED GRUNT)” in the scripts.
Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.
0wbEA TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.
wMP7 TIL that Misha Collins (Castiel from “Supernatural”) is the founder and Guiness Book Of World Records recipient of “The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen” or the world’s largest scavenger hunt.
XNxr TIL that in 1941, the RAF dropped packages containing tea bags over the German occupied Netherlands. The packages were marked, “Holland will rise again… Keep your chins up.”