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TIL the common Swift spends most of its entire life without landing. They are able to eat, drink, mate, and sleep while flying.

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NRMN TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
LkO7Q TIL Japanese Honeybees defend themselves against wasps by swarming them and "baking" them by vibrating their wings to 47 degrees Celsius. One degree above the wasp's max temperature.
ORb1 TIL: Daniel Radcliffe wore the same dirty hat and jacket for six months in order to frustrate paparazzi because the pictures would always look “old” and couldn’t be sold.
ANg74 TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation
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