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TIL In 2008, a group of Australian teenagers beat up the world’s oldest flamingo

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MaRA TIL there was a pod of killer whales in Eden, Australia between 1840 and 1930 that would assist whalers in hunting baleen whales. The killer whales would find target whales, shepherd them into Twofold Bay, and alert whalers to their presence, often helping them to kill the whales.
yVgPl TIL that in 1966, after a gas well in Uzbekistan burned for over three years, the Soviet Union used a 30-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated deep underground to crush the pipe and seal the leak by vitrifying the surrounding rock.
ZxOR TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.
VBlAG TIL that Patrick Troughton, the second actor to play Doctor Who, considered playing the character as a tough sea captain or pirate in blackface. He eventually chose the character of a "space hobo."
golD TIL Pixar animators working to finish Toy Story 2 had such a heavy workload that many chose to work long hours even though Pixar discouraged it. Animators developed carpal tunnel syndrome, and one even forgot he had left his baby in the backseat of his car all day.