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TIL If you’re American and find bird shit on an uninhabited island, you can claim the entire island as part of the United States

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5QZk TIL children who speak Mandarin are far more likely to develop perfect pitch because of tone association with words, and that one word can have up to four different meanings depending on the pitch at which it is spoken.
9YObm TIL of Stella Nyanzi, a foe of Ugandan President Museveni. She posted she wished Mr. Museveni had burned up in the "acidic pus" of his mother's vagina. She was jailed for cyberharassment and bared her breasts at her sentencing, "I intended to annoy Yoweri Museveni. We are tired of his dictatorship."
LQDxV TIL Coyote howls act as a population census and if their howls are not answered by other packs, the result is a biological response that produces large litters.
Vr7p TIL male penguins have been observed having sex with other male penguins, having sex with dead penguins and having sex with unwilling female penguins. When this was discovered in 1912, it was considered too lewd to publish.
J8EV TIL: From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.