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TIL the Common Kestral used to be called a “Windfucker”
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TIL UPS drivers wore green uniforms when they started in West Germany because the locals associated the "brown shirts" with the Nazis.
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TIL it is likely that solar eclipses, the way we experience them, are likely unique to earth.
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TIL The first Papal visit to a mosque was in May 2001. Pope John Paul II took off his shoes and entered the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, to visit the tomb of John the Baptist (who is called Yah-ya el-Mamadan by Muslims).
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TIL 360 people on average die in police chases in the US every year, 1/3 being innocent bystanders. There is no mandatory reporting system, so it is speculated this number is 3-4 times higher.
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TIL Jeremy Clarkson was fired from "Top Gear" for punching a producer who told him the hotel kitchen was closed.