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TIL The day the Secret Service was created by Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865, was also the day he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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kO5ag TIL of Paul Moran. A man from Northern Ireland who attempted to turn his faeces into gold. He subsequently caused more than £3000 in damages to his home due and was charged with arson.
B9ak TIL beaver teeth are orange because they are fortified with iron which makes them strong and cavity-resistant. Their teeth also continuously grow and self-sharpen.
8lpX TIL that when Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."
lowAN TIL flies find it hard to land on striped surfaces, & zebras suffer far less from flies, which carry deadly diseases. Zebra stripes are more pronounced in environments that favour horseflies