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TIL Mary Baker (1792–1864) was an English impostor posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo from a distant island kingdom. She fooled a British town for several months before being exposed.

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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
xoB TIL Koko the Gorilla named a kitten All Ball. All Ball died in an accident and Koko signed she was sad and cried alone when no one was around, but there is an audio recording.
XEEmj TIL that MASSIVE was CGI software developed to generate battle scene special effects in the Lord of the Rings films. It was later developed into a complete product and licensed out for use in other movies such as Avatar, The Hobbit, 300, & more.
K7eJ TIL : A full grown wild Alaskan Wolf would come to play with dogs. It even had a stash of toys; it would bring a styrofoam float over for a man to throw. The wolf was called Romeo by locals and died in 2010 after 6 years of this behaviour
NARe TIL In 2009 Burger King launched a campaign that if you unfriended 10 friends on Facebook you were entitled to a free whopper. The person you unfriended would get a message telling them that their friendship is worth less than a whopper.