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TIL The Two Oldest Cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.

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6EkJl TIL that what American businessman and astronomer Percival Lowell mistakenly thought were “spokes” on the surface of Venus were actually shadows of the blood vessels in his eyes cast on his retina, his telescope essentially functioning as a giant ophthalmoscope.
6EK57 TIL that one of JFK's favorite books begin with the funeral of Edward VII, at that point the world's largest gathering of world leaders for a state funeral. The first funeral to have more world leaders present was JFK's own burial.
5V5KP TIL about the pet blood bank, an amazing charity in the UK that asks pet owners to let their pets donate blood. Dogs have either positive or negative blood, and negative blood can be used for any dog in need.
LL6Z TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and would scare his guests by driving into a lake, screaming about brake failure.
lo5pG TIL at the start of the 1539 siege of Vienna by the Ottomans, their leader, Suleiman I, was so sure of his victory that he boasted that he would be having breakfast in Vienna cathedral within 14 days. 14 days later, the Austrians sent him a letter, telling him his breakfast was getting cold.