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TIL There’s a National Eagle Repository in Colorado, where bald and golden eagles found dead are sent, and then have their parts redistributed to Native American tribes for ceremonial purposes

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xnNb TIL Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford got drunk with his cronies, wrecked a small town in Ireland, painted it red (literally), beat up a few cops and painted them red too. Thus the term painting the town red was created.
9YMPp TIL: Over the next 20 years, a new pilot will need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every 15 minutes in order to meet demand.
yQg8V TIL "killer bees" (real name: Africanized bees) are actually a man-made hybrid species created in 1957 when 26 swarms of them escaped quarantine
ZLNR TIL that for a science fair experiment in 1969, a 14 year old scientist used genes to change chicken feathers from white to partially black, which his teacher said was playing God.
ne79r TIL an unknown man in Norway has been shitting in golf holes for a decade