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TIL that condor can soar for 100 MILES without flapping its wings.

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5m59 TIL RPG clerics wield maces because Bishop Odo of Bayeux was wielding one in the Bayeux Tapestry, allegedly so as not to shed blood.
j6XNE TIL that Joyce Vincent was a 38-year-old woman who died in her London apartment while watching TV. Her body wasn't discovered until nearly three years later when officials arrived to repossess the apartment for unpaid rent.
exWk TIL that in 1910 two young boys(6 and 10) took a trip from Oklahoma to Manhattan on horseback completely alone.