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TIL A group of wild bunnies is called a fluffle.

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wLrW8 TIL that the infamous 1971 D.B.Cooper plane hijacking remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI officially suspended their active investigation in July 2016. The 60-volume case file is open to the public to read.
R7Ry9 TIL The Mongols attempted to conquer Japan twice in 1274 and 1281. Both times they were thwarted by tyhoons which were given the name of 'Kamikaze' meaning 'Divine Wind'
698aQ TIL the ancient Greek alphabet -- and by implication today's English alphabet -- can be traced back to a single vote held in Athens in 403 BC on whether to adapt the "Ionic Alphabet", the first of the "Euclidean" alphabets. It supposedly took them one year to implement the metric change.
OoByg TIL that Stalin's daughter caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
m1wWM TIL some birds have tiny magnetic particles in their beaks.