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TIL the symbol for New Zealand’s Air Force is a Kiwi bird. Kiwis cannot fly.

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QNxY6 TIL In the early 17th century, people began to believe plaits were an external symptom of an internal illness. A growing plait was supposed to take the illness "out" of the body, and therefore it was rarely cut off; in addition, the belief that a cut-off plait could avenge itself
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