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TIL That, on request of the family of Sir Winston Churchill, there is always a marmalade cat called Jock in residence at Chartwell house. Currently it is Jock VI.

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MPMV TIL that Bob Duffey, possibly the world’s best, safest, and most unknown motorcycle stuntman, boasts a career of over 1200 jumps with only 3 crashes having “a record of perfection unequaled by anyone.” At age 66, he still performs motorcycle stunts to this day.
EgOwp TIL Cindy Williams left "Laverne & Shirley" because producers insisted she work on her baby's due date.
wLVnJ TIL that the copy of Charlie Hebdo magazine released after the terror attack, sold nearly 8 million copies, compared to their prior usual of 60,000 copies.
ZB4 TIL Despite having helped win WWII by cracking the German Enigma code, and being the father modern computers, the British government still refuses to posthumously pardon Alan Turing for convictions relating to his homosexuality.
E1ejd TIL about the oldest trees in the world, the oldest one ever found known as Prometheus located in Nevada, which lived for approx 5000 years until it was cut by a graduate student and United States and Forest Service for other research purposes unknowing of the history of the tree.