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TIL Some flying insects have an organs called halteres that function like vibrating structure gyroscopes

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9wY6p TIL 'Tainted Love' was originally produced by Gloria Jones
lonEr TIL in 1945, Barry Fitzgerald accidentally decapitated his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor while using it to practice his golf swing. The statute was particularly vulnerable because it was made of plaster and painted gold due to the shortage of metal during WWII.
LBpZ TIL a homeless man was found decapitated with a severed chicken head shoved in his neck. An occult detective predicted that the Santeria cult took his head to make a brain stew, and that they would return the head in 42 days. She was taken off the case, and the head showed up 42 days later.
4koJg TIL The Daily Beast is named after a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.
BgdOk TIL that the longest recorded time a chicken has been observed flying continuously is 13 seconds, and the furthest recorded flight of a chicken has covered 301.5 feet.