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TIL crows and ravens can mimic human languages

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N7JeN TIL: In 1961, 152 Black Cats Tried Out For The Title Role In The Movie Adaptation Of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 Short Story The Black Cat
rR1a1 TIL in 1965, 4 CIA employees were fired because they started a “free-for-all food fight in the cafeteria.”
Xo0Q TIL that there is a small town in Venezuela, founded by German immigrants in 1843, that has maintained its authentic origin culture, including architecture, cuisine, and language, so much that it is known as ‘The Germany of the Caribbean’
LknEm TIL after experiencing headaches Gerardo Moctezuma consulted doctors who performed an MRI revealing a tapeworm in the middle of his brain. It was removed in one piece during surgery. Doctors said it had been there for a decade and the rare condition was caused by eating under-cooked meat.
ADjag TIL that Medieval mapmakers supposedly inscribed the phrase “Here Be Dragons” on maps showing unknown regions of the world. Unfortunately, however, it appears that, apart from an inscription on a single, 16th-century globe, this claim is unfounded.