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TIL that the production of the musical Love Never Dies was delayed because composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's six-month-old kitten Otto climbed onto Lloyd Webber's digital piano and managed to delete the entire score.

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nXKW TIL That Wagon trails from the Oregon Trail are still visible today
pYdme TIL that we can never travel at the speed of light according to our current understanding of the physics of the universe because to travel at speed of light, we would need infinite amount of energy which is not possible. Quite a revelation after watching 100s of sci-fi movies.
8DyK TIL of Nzinga, a 17th century queen in Angola who had a harem of men that had to fight to be with her and were put to death after a night of pleasure
l7oP7 TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. The professorship is named after the antiquarian John Disney, who endowed the position in 1851.
ADAdx TIL of the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a public monument in London commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten.