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TIL that the first cloned pet was a cat and it’s name was Copy Cat

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LQAYd TIL that after the plane crash in which Buddy Holly died, the remaining members of his band continued the tour
wLeNE TIL that the producers of MASH wrote responses to hundreds of angry letters about the death of Henry Blake by explaining that a plane evacuating kids from Vietnam recently crashed with no survivors, asking if the viewers felt the same sorrow for the children as they did for a fictional man.
0dryR TIL about Mehmet Ali Ağca. Dude murdered a journalist and shot Pope John Paul II, got released from prison, then went to the Vatican and asked to meet Pope Francis and write a book with Dan Brown.
dD5Gj TIL about Harry Washington, a slave owned by George Washington who escaped to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War, fled to Canada after the war, and eventually joined a rebellion against the British in Sierra Leone
EgYw TIL if you eject from an aircraft using a Martin Baker ejection seat you join their Ejection Tie Club - receiving a tie and a pin