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TIL Crows remember faces and hold grudges

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W7kYY TIL about The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, a Catholic church carved into Antarctic ice and the southernmost place of worship in the world.
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
yQbwX TIL That all the victims who jumped from the WTC towers were re-classified as "Fallers", and therefore all their deaths were ruled homicides.
b67QN TIL in 1411 a Chinese army invaded Sri Lanka, defeated and overthrew the king, and brought him back to China as a prisoner to the Ming emperor.
a81pA TIL Boys in the United States used to wear dresses until they had their first haircut, which was usually around age 6-7. Pictured is future President FDR in 1884 at age 2 and a half