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TIL that crows can hold grudges for up to 17 years and pass their beef down to their kids.

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oRRNr TIL Cyrillic Alphabet was firstly used by Bulgarians.
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XWG6 TIL: The only X-files episode to carry a TV-MA rating for being very disturbing (for its time) was “Home”, about an inbred family
O4Q6 TIL After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed with her that he wrote to the wife Henry H. Rogers, a wealthy oil magnate, pleading her to convince her husband to support Keller’s education. Mr. Rogers agreed and personally paid her entire education.
kLbB TIL that the streets of Seattle Washington were elevated in the 19th century leaving a network of underground tunnels and basements that use to be ground level.