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TIL Oxyphenbutazone is theoretically the highest-scoring of all the Scrabble words—hooked to the right words, it would earn a whopping 1,778 points, found Dan Stock of Ohio. But it would require perfect placement of eight other tiles, so it’s never actually been played in a real game.

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R7Oy6 TIL in 2018 a French historical theme park named Puy du Fou trained six Rooks, a member of the crow family, to pick up cigarette butts and trash. When one of them takes a piece of trash to a special box the device dispenses bird food.
P19xE TIL about the Dutch Reach method, a preferred action for exiting London cabs safely because of the actions it sets off: reach, swivel, look back, open slowly, and then exit facing traffic.
8e81b TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE that is an enclave within a territory of Oman that is itself an enclave within the UAE. Such a territory is called a "counter-enclave".
9wMnB TIL that one cubic centimeter of the human body has a higher energy output then one cubic centimeter of the sun.
6EjoX TIL that Ben Affleck speaks fluent Spanish