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

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R78N7 TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes. A elit military unit in ancient Greece which consisted of 150 pairs of gay lovers. They were feared and honored as the best warriors in all of Greece and even won against the then Greece superpower Sparta.
Q8Q6 TIL 2 identical twins died from virtually the same accident two hours apart, 1 mile away
NXaW1 TIL that Carlo Gambino, namesake of the Gambino crime family and one of the most powerful Mafia bosses in US history, only spent 22 months in prison during a 50-year criminal career.
QJ8xd TIL in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus," Billy Bucherson coughed up real life moths. He was fitted with a mouth piece, which consisted of a latex pouch that held the dirt and moths.
YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”