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TIL that falcons will imprison their prey alive for storage
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TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who used to send the band's members to the principal for their long hair. Later, the band used his real estate company's sign and phone number in album artwork, swamping Leonard Skinner Realty in prank calls.
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Today I learned that there once lived a reptile with a neck three times the size of it's body...
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TIL there's a percussion instrument called a "Quijada" or "Jawbone" made from the jawbone of cattle that gets its sound from teeth rattling when it's struck
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TIL about the Atlas vampire, an unsolved murdercase in Stockholm 1932
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TIL that while Japan is not legally allowed to have a military, they circumvent this rule by maintaining the world's most militarized "police force", complete with destroyers and fighter aircraft