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TIL as a struggling young writer, Harper Lee received a gift of a years wages from a friend with a note saying “you have a year off your job to write whatever you want. Merry Christmas” she wrote ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

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5vdD TIL in Medieval Europe it was common for the wealthy to eat meals with their entire household, including servants.
9YO1B TIL cats have contributed to the extinction of at least 63 global vertebrate species, deemed one of “the most ubiquitous and environmentally damaging invasive predators on Earth", while new studies shows cats are ineffective when it comes to catching rats.
41ao TIL 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in world are just in India.
x6LXg TIL that Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's full title was "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
16E7 TIL that Gandhi used to sleep naked next to young Indian girls in order to test his resolve to chastity