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TIL that NYC has the highest concentration of nesting peregrine falcons in the world

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kBmd TIL during world war 2, African American GI’s experienced less racism from Nazi German’s than they did from their own non-African American GI’s.
BgmyK TIL during a scene in The Shawshank Redemption in which a crow was to be fed a maggot, the American Humane Society objected against the idea of a live animal being killed for the scene meaning the team had to find and use a maggot that had died of natural causes.
lK8N TIL After Tesla redesigned Edison company’s motors, he asked for 50,000 Edison promised him. Edison replied “Tesla, you don’t understand american humor”. Tesla immediately resigned
QNlAX TIL Einstein cheated on his first wife and believed "most men are not monogamously endowed"
VM4yk TIL O Canada was originally written in 1880, but it didn't become Canada's official anthem until a century later. In the wake of Quebec's first independence referendum, in which 40% voted to leave Canada, the federal government dumped God Save the Queen and replaced it with O Canada