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TIL Female Golden Eagles , are used by Mongolian shepherds to defend against wolves.

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gMYv7 TIL In November 2015, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania, reportedly ordered the 2015 Mauritanian Super Cup to go to a penalty shootout in the 63rd minute with the score tied 1–1 because he was getting bored with the match.
7rOOM TIL about Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組), a family-owned Japanese construction company which has been in business since 578 AD.
7dkL TIL That a victim of the Aurora shooting (at the Dark Knight Rises Premier) didn’t have insurance and woke up with 2 million dollars in medical expenses.
9wlmr TIL in 2008 Daniel Hoevels, a German actor, accidentally cut his own throat on stage in a “suicide scene” when he was given a real knife by mistake.
PYwZE TIL that wild populations of the Kanab Ambersnail exist in only two small, disconnected areas. One location is a series of small ponds located in a meadow near Kanab, Utah, and the other is at some waterfalls that emerge from the cliff face near the bottom of the Grand Canyon.