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TIL in 1973 and 1987, two juvenile Bald Eagles were found having flown to Ireland.

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ZQGD TIL There was a clan of blue-skinned people in the Kentucky mountains
7rwvb TIL the oldest living Nobel laureate, Edmond Fischer was born on April 6, 1920. He and his collaborator Edwin Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins & regulate various cellular process.
9bEm TIL in WW2, Nazis rigged skewed-hanging-pictures with explosives in buildings that would be prime candidates for Allies to set up a command post from. When Ally officers would set up a command post, they tended to straighten the pictures, triggering these “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”
awOAL TIL a group of transport fare-dodgers in Paris created an insurance scheme where they paid small amounts into a common fund which was then used when anyone got caught and fined.
Lk0g9 TIL that archeologists have found several iron tools, weapons and cultural objects dating thousands of years before the advent of the Iron age. These objects were held in high regard for their qualities and were made by cold forging iron obtained by fallen meteors.