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TIL Australian wedge-tailed eagles are ferociously territorial and attack drones, UAVs, paragliders and helicopters.

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b9kx0 TIL that New Zealand was home to a 12-foot-tall species of bird known as the "giant moa." They were wiped around 1500 AD after settlers found the island and hunted them for food.
e05pE TIL that the movie “Mars Attacks” is based off of a Topps trading cards series
gMQ07 TIL that all the artists whose music was used in the Blues Brothers film kept the publishing rights and got all the income from the album sales. Dan & John only took the performers rights
gxL TIL Down Syndrome males are sterile (aside from one documented case)
OW56 TIL The screenwriter for “Battlefield Earth” publically apologized for writing such a bad movie saying, “comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.”