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TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher

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e0bmD TIL in 1896, 500,000 people gathered in Khodynka Field, Moscow, to receive free gifts, celebrating the crowning of Nicholas II. Rumors spread that there was not enough beer for everybody, and that the beer cups contained a gold coin. The crowd responded by creating a stampede, killing 1,389 people.
d8Odr TIL about the 1961 Bobo doll experiment to study aggresion. Researchers physically abused an inflatable Clown doll in front of children, who then mimicked the behaviour, attacking Bobo in a similar fashion.
yQ8eX TIL the Sixteen Pleasures, the Vaticans 16th century sex guide, escaped complete destruction. The author landed in jail but despite all these efforts the book was re-edited in the 18th century, with illustrations.
DQ1Qj TIL that fireflies (lightening bugs) live for only two months.
v1DnL TIL that David Werder sat on a flagpole for over a year to protest gas prices in 1982-1984