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TIL that Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929

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XQYr TIL Honey bees are not native to North America.
yQPrv TIL of Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumoured to have met Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin as one of only 96 out of 16000 animals from the Berlin Zoo to survive WW2. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
78AxZ TIL Strom Thurmond remained in the US Senate until he was 100
5wZD TIL he world record for longest, most accurate shot with a bow is made by an armless man, hitting the target 230 yards away.
9wO9M TIL Lockheed’s Skunk Works was named as such be of a stench. The original team had a super time critical first project and had to sleep near Lockheeds assembly plant in a parking lot in a rented circus tent - next to a plastic factory.