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TIL Cats Sleep For 70 Percent of Their Lives

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OoJV4 TIL that in August 1966, a few months after John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," a radio station in Texas, USA had a "Beatles bonfire" and burned thousands of Beatles records in front of a crowd. The next day, the station's transmitter tower was struck by lightning.
r8Yo TIL of a classical pianist Joyce Hatto who was described as “the greatest living pianist”. After her death it was found out that she and her husband plagiarized over 100 recordings made by other classical pianists of her time.
PYleZ TIL The ancient Greeks had known the world is round since Pythagoras, and successfully calculated the circumference of the globe when Eratosthenes measued the angles of the mid-day sun between two towns of a known distance. His calculation had only about a 10% margin of error.
kJWJ1 TIL in 1900, an unknown boy was hired as coswain by the Dutch team for the Olympic rowing event. The team received a gold medal
BrJPD TIL Vitamin D is used as rat poison in extremely high doses, in which it causes Calcium crystals to form in organs (Calcification), tearing them apart from the inside