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TIL there is something called Genetic memory, an example are butterflies who remember their migration route even though it takes three generations to complete

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8e6Pa TIL Burt Reynolds turned down the movie terms of endearment for Stroker Ace which was a critically failure. Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for the role Reynolds turned down
OGGj1 TIL Royal Blue, a messenger pigeon of King George IV, later on would get a medal in World War II.
VBN98 TIL that each year the 25 best high school students of Italy get invited to the president's palace in Rome to be personally awarded a medal by the president of Italy for their good grades
7lQb TIL on September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons dressed up like Indians and massacred about 120 men, women, and children who were traveling through Utah in a wagon train.
VMdPB TIL In 430 BC a plague originating in Egypt broke out- spreading to Persia, Libya and Athens. The plague killed more than a quarter of the population.