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

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R7GG9 TIL that for the 2015 Chinese film "Wolf Totem", 35 Mongolian wolves were trained in China for over 4 years by a Scottish trainer, who trained them to sit, snarl, and fight on cue. After filming, the wolves were ultimately relocated to Canada, since they only understood commands in English
n6Pd TIL: The last Sauna contest between Finland and Russia left one man dead, and the other in the Hospital for severe burns
P1bOZ TIL about Victor Lustig, a con artist who famously "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice in 1925 to scrap metal dealers in one of the most audacious scams in history.
9Drm TIL: The symbol “lb” for pound comes from an abbreviation of the constellation Libra, the scales.
8aABL TIL that Ligers [Lion+Tiger hybrids] aren't sterile. In fact, there's a 2nd gen hybrid species called Liligers, which are bred from a female Liger and a male Lion. While ligers often inherit the sandy coloring and stripes of its parentage, liligers often develop rosettes similar to a leopard.