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TIL Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had a pet lion

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ADZ9a TIL Physicists at Washington State University created 'negative mass' where unlike every known physical object in the world, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.
b95nj TIL People with arteriosclerosis have pimple-like growths, called plaques, inside their artery walls. These pimples are stuffed with a kind of pus. When a large, ugly yellow plaque pops open, it attracts red blood cells that form a clot, blocking the artery and causing a heart attack or stroke.
1a60D TIL the reason why Armstrong was the first man on the moon and not Aldrin was that the Eagle's hatch opened to one side, and it was towards the pilot, Aldrin. When the hatch was opened, the commander, Armstrong, had a clear path to exit, while the pilot was pinned in the cramped space of the module.
0wZDN TIL that there is no species of animal that is a black panther. "Black panther" is just a term for any large sized feline with a genetic disorder that causes melanism, giving them their black appearance.
OokOX TIL in 2005 Greenpeace protesters managed to infiltrate a Range Rover Sport assembly facility and temporarily delay its production.