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TIL in 2022 a bar-tailed godwit flew 8,430 miles (13,560 km) non-stop from Alaska to Tasmania in 11 days and 1 hour, setting a new world record for a bird non-stop fly time.

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P14wZ TIL: There was an activist group in the UK named Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, or CIRCA in 2003-2005. In 2005, a clown gathering prompted the deployment of 10,000 officers. The group declined after operation HA.HA.HAA (Helping Authorities House Arrest Half-witted Authoritarian Androids).
R7WeQ TIL a common misconception in Miranda rights is that you are “off the hook” if your rights are not read to you. Another misunderstanding is that police are required to Mirandize a person; this is NOT the case. Mirandize a suspect is only required if they intend to interrogate that person in custody.
nvo7 TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcast 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
M7xQK TIL that not only were HP Lovecraft and Harry Houdini good friends, Lovecraft wrote a short story "Under the Pyramids" starring Houdini as a man character.
dDNV7 TIL about Ship Money, a tax on coastal areas of England to promote ship building in times of war. King Charles I tried to levy it in peacetime and to extend it to the inland counties of England without parliamentary approval. It provoked fierce resistance and helped to trigger the English Civil War.