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Today I learned there is cat called Oscar that lives in a nursing home and it can predict the next death by going to the room of the person and sitting with them to provide comfort.

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7OZX TIL that a Formula One driver was killed when a bird flew into his face.
R7VV6 TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak. It's the only recorded homicide in New York on September the 11th, 2001, as the city does not include the deaths from the attacks in the official crime statistics; the murder remains unsolved.
wAWo TIL Mr Bean’s humour truly crosses language and cultural barriers; a friend of Rowan Atkinson’s was in a poor African village during the 90s when she heard loud laughter coming from a shack. She went in & discovered most of the village gathered around a fuzzy black & white TV watching Mr Bean.
GAkPj TIL On Christmas Eve 1969, Francisco Macias Nguema had 186 suspected dissidents executed in the national football stadium in Malabo with the executioners dressed as Santa Claus, with the amplifiers played Mary Hopkin's song "Those Were the Days".
X0poj TIL: Peter Pan's Captain Hook canonically went to Famous English Public School, Eton.