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TIL that Portland, Oregon uses falconers to deter crows from roosting in the city center

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BrbPy TIL about "Chess Boxing", a hybrid that combines a cerebral board game and a physical sport. To take home the glory, players must coerce their opponent into a knockout or batter them into checkmate.
GAMV1 TIL it’s impossible to make soft shell turtle eggs sunny side up. The egg white protein doesn’t coagulate with heat.
p8nQG TIL that German Snipers in WWI had excellent observational training and killed hundreds of enemy officers. They could identify British officers at hundreds of yards simply by the cut of their breeches.
xVdEw TIL: SEGA stands for Service Games.. and was founded by Americans..
pYWO TIL Amish men do not grow mustaches because, as pacifists, they did not want to be associated with warring Europeans who wore elaborate mustaches.