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TIL: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" has 5 verses

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d8vj8 TIL Jake Perry has owned both of the oldest cats to ever live. He fed them dry food, broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream and an eyedropper of red wine, played them nature documentaries, built steps on his walls, and an enclosure in his backyard.
R5jY6 TIL that the first indie video game developer is a woman. Joyce Weisbecker wrote games for the RCA Studio II console from 1976 to 1977, and received $250 for her first paying work.
GAklJ TIL Renovation of the historical Battersea Power station in London cost £9bn (USD 10.8bn). It has luxury apartments, hotel, restaurants, and a roof top pool. One chimney has a glass elevator (lift 109) going to the top. Hotel rooms have vinyl record players, and of course Pink Floyd's Animals!
e0MQL TIL there have been at least 5 different Battles of Thermopylae aside from the one famously fought between the Greeks and Persians (popularized by "300") in 480 BC. The most recent of these battles was between the ANZACs and the Wermacht in 1941.
grM4A TIL the Mediterranean orchid Ophrys that employs sexual deceit to get pollination done by a species of bee by evolving one of its petal to bear resemblance to the female of the bee in size colour & markings thus attracting the male bee into pseudocopulation, pollinating the flowers in the process