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TIL there’s a bird that migrates from Alaska to Africa and back every year

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8eloP TIL the peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", taken to stand for "nuclear disarmament".
g969 TIL in 1993 the owner of a zoo in Mexico was arrested when he illegally purchased an FBI agent in a gorilla suit, thinking it was an actual gorilla.
GYVJ5 TIL that the game, Borderlands 2 has an NPC character named Michael Mamaril, who offers out loot and weapons to players. This character was created as a tribute to a fan, Michael John Mamarial, who passed away from illness at the young age of 22.
R57L8 TIL that during a two-year recovery from tuberculosis at a sanitorium, Ringo Starr was first exposed to a percussion instrument in the form of a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his hospital bed.
weGo TIL Saddam Hussein wrote a romance novel