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TIL there's a rare mutated golden Australian possum named Pikachu

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Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008
myvY TIL in 1980 William Bergstrom arrived at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada with two suitcases: one containing $777,000 in cash, the other empty. He placed the full amount on a single bet of dice which he won and packed the winnings in the empty suitcase
eB1b TIL that early Renaissance artists were electrified when a young Roman fell through a cleft in a hill and rediscovered Nero’s Golden House. Subsequent tourists to the spot include Michelangelo, Raphael, Casanova, and the Marquis de Sade, all of whom left graffiti in the ruins.
vPL88 TIL that in 2007 the NCTA launched a campaign to teach families about online safety. Here’s a rare PSA that gets its point across in a cute, innocent way rather than being scary.
mKVM TIL that on the death of his mother, Jimi Hendrix’s father refused to take him the funeral, instead giving the then 15 year old shots of whiskey and informing him that this was how men dealt with loss.