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TIL Salvador Dalí had a pet ocelot named Babou.

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OvXR TIL 25 years ago one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, a 14 year old Laotian boy, escaped only to be returned to him by the police. He was strangled to death shortly afterwards.
kJW8W TIL about the siege of Numantia in 143 BCE. The Romans surrounded an Iberian city. The citizens chose to commit collective suicide rather than become Roman slaves.
Byyr TIL that the phrase “I do not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it”, the most quoted line in relation to freedom of speech, was misattributed to Voltaire because Evelyn Hall, in her biography of Voltaire’s life, used her own words to sum up his beliefs
5YavD TIL: A 150-foot-deep Texas sinkhole discovered in 1821 became a mass grave in the Civil War era. Bodies of 5 to 36 accused Union sympathizers and postwar supporters of the Reconstruction were dumped in after lynching or other summary execution. In 1999 Dead Mans Hole became part of public parkland.
NXp4E TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second).