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TIL that the official bird of Redondo Beach, California, is the Goodyear Blimp

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XpKk TIL a Filipino president pardoned a Japanese soldier in 1974 who committed multiple murders and engaged police in numerous shootouts, because the soldier refused to believe that WWII was over.
4jQJ TIL the director of the Guinness Breweries, became in 1951 involved in an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. The realisation there is no book for world records made him create “The Guinness Book of Records” that itself holds the world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.
Z8oMG TIL that the Fosbury Flop is so successful as a high jump technique because it allows the jumper’s centre of mass to travel underneath the bar
R7Vl4 TIL that Final Destination (released in 2000) was originally intended to be be an episode of the X-Files
dgg7 TIL the human retina is actually brain tissue, you see with an exposed part of your brain.