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Today I learned that there is a 1 Acre plot that belongs to the United States in Great Britain. It's a memorial for JFK, and Queen Elizabeth granted the plot to America

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W7VEA TIL Australian magpies one of the cleverest birds on Earth once helped each other to remove tracking devices researchers took 6 months to create and put on them. Within 20 minutes, one helping magpie had found the only weak point and snipped to remove the device.
8jjG TIL A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels for cock fighting… and 25 women.
wLbRP TIL the term "Game Over" originated with light-up displays on 1950's pinball machines
0w6G1 TIL that every sweater Mr Rogers wore on his show had been hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas. She died in 1981. When they started wearing thin in the 1990s, replacements were found, but the source has been forgotten.
0w9Ny TIL that the reason some dinosaurs were able to get so large was that they had "air sacks" in and around their bones, which prevented them from being crushed under their own weight and allowing them to grow to enormous sizes.