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TIL after he ‘killed’ Sherlock in The Final Problem (1893), readers got upset and relentlessly pressured Conan Doyle to resurrect the character. In 1901 Doyle released The Hound of the Baskervilles in a bid to pacify, and finally in 1903 he resurrected Holmes in the The Adventure of the Empty House.

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78kB7 TIL Disneyland is home to 200 feral cats that serve as pest control. They are spayed and neutered and the park provides food and dedicated shelter for them. They hunt freely at night and usually stay away from guests but because they're territorial some have become well known for frequent sightings.
1angV TIL The sibling Roman Emperors Caracalla and Geta hated each other so much that they divided the imperial palace in two like some kind of contrived sitcom plot
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Z6yQ TIL in 1980 A single dropped ratchet in an Air Force missile silo resulted in an ruptured tank that led to an explosion that destroyed the silo and shot a nuclear warhead 100 feet from the complex entry gate. They then just filled in the giant hole.