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TIL Despite their name, Screech Owls don't really screech. Their call is more of a soft cooing resembling a horse whinny.

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e0ReJ TIL that five years before Superman was created there was a pulp fiction Superhero called 'Doc Savage'. He was known as 'The Man of Bronze,' and had a 'Fortress of Solitude ' in the Arctic. He had superhuman powers, though was not an alien. He was known as a Super Man, oh and his name was Clark.
WkK8 TIL the coldest known place in the Universe is on Earth. Scientists have created condensates predicted by Einstein, that are cooled 810 trillionths of a degree F above absolute zero.
R7jy9 TIL about the Fold And Cut Theorem which states that any shape with straight edges can be cut from a single sheet of paper with a single straightforward cut, with the right folding.
9w47X TIL that during the production of the film “Roadhouse” (1989), all the actors did their own stunts. Actor Sam Elliott recalled: "All the actors, as far as I know, did their own fighting. I fucking got the shit kicked out of me for the entire film."
KOYLQ TIL that between 1990 and 2005, China’s fight against poverty accounted for more than three-quarters of global poverty reduction and helped the world reached the UN millennium development goal of halving extreme poverty.