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TIL when Italy declared war on Ethiopia in violation of the League of Nations' policies, only Adolf Hitler sent support to Ethiopia

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RpGj TIL that a Russian family took a few possessions/seeds, fled into the forest as political refugees and were cut off from all human contact for 40 years until they were discovered by a group of geologists who accidentally saw their settlement from a helicopter.
LQNNm TIL cat fur allergy is not actually for fur bot for proteins in saliva on it.
p84Wp TIL The celebrity holdout of the Mt. St Helens eruption, Harry Truman, refused to believe the volcano would be a threat to him. His family was futile in an attempt to bribe him away with whisky. On 05/18/80 Harry was buried under 150 ft of volcanic ash with his 16 cats.
D15Mp TIL that the final section of the U.S. government's report on 9/11 was classified when it was released, and remained so until 2016. This section stated that the 9/11 hijackers received funding from individuals connected to the Saudi government, which the U.S. had kept secret for 15 years.
jgQ TIL Sonny Bono, Jason Lee, and even Charles Manson are/were scientologists, except Manson was the only one to call it “too crazy” and leave the church.