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TIL London’s smallest statue ‘Two Mice Eating Cheese’ commemorates the death of two workmen who, in 1862, fell from scaffolding whilst arguing over a missing sandwich. It was actually stolen by mice

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8ar14 TIL of the Circumcellions, a 4th century Christian sect. They believed that the greatest Christian virtue was martyrdom, so they attacked random people with clubs while praising God in the hopes that they would be killed by their victims.
6oPZ TIL that owls have serrations on the edge of their flight feathers, allowing an owl’s flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, for which silence has no evolutionary advantage, lack this adaptation.
GA9D5 TIL That 38% of world wide unprovoked shark attacks occur in Florida.
w10Y TIL Lurleen Wallace, who would become governor of Alabama, was diagnosed with cancer in 1961 but neither her doctor nor her husband Governor George Wallace bothered to let her know so she went without treatment for FOUR YEARS. The cancer killed her only 15 months into her term.