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TIL “chickadee-dee-dee” is a predator alarm; the more “dee"s, the higher the alert level

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xVyo TIL that 10 months before her death, Princess Diana wrote a note to her butler stating her belief that Prince Charles was planning to kill her and make it look like an automobile accident.
jNeMn TIL Black Sabbath's debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell.
WQ7X TIL that the Swedish state financially support TOR, the backbone of the Deep Web and anonymous surfing
QvaL TIL in a 2010 report written for the Rothschild Giraffe Project, researcher Zoe Muller wrote: “It is believed [in Tanzania] that giraffe brains and bone marrow can cure HIV-AIDS victims,” adding that “freshly severed heads and giraffe bones can fetch prices of up to $140 per piece.”
oxNA TIL that Bill Haast, the “Snake Man,” was bitten by poisonous snakes at least 173 times, he injected himself with snake venom everyday for over 60 years, he saved countless lives with his antibody rich blood, and he lived to be 100.