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TIL Crows hold 'funerals' for fellow crows. Often neighboring crows who didn't know the now deceased crow or even see it die will attend these 'funerals'

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XNxr TIL that in 1941, the RAF dropped packages containing tea bags over the German occupied Netherlands. The packages were marked, “Holland will rise again… Keep your chins up.”
VMA64 TIL that George Washington owned the largest distillery in America, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey per year
vPG7R TIL that a quantum transition that lasts 1/1,000th of a second is at the root of genetic mutation
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