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TIL that the name of a flock of ravens is “an unkindness of ravens” or a “Conspiracy of ravens”.

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aBp0 TIL of Francine Gottfried, a woman who was famous briefly in the 1960s because crowds of men would stare at and harass her on her way to work. The crowd peaked at 10,000 and required a police escort
Oane TIL In 2002 a 15 year old boy inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It damaged one office room and he was the only person that died.
BXVd TIL that the first ever storage device used by Google was made out of LEGO because it presented an easy way to store several hard-drives.
0j11 TIL Mary Anning was an English woman who discovered dinosaur fossils, was the first to assemble a full skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, a self-taught scientist, a business owner, confirmed the existence of the Pterodactyl, and one of the founders of Paleontology.
vPbx TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn’t believe him until a “teacupful of the brain” fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod