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TIL that crows hold funerals to make a collective association between danger and a particular location or predator.

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R76X6 TIL that when South Korea was upset with North Korea over nuclear testing they blasted K-pop music over the border to annoy them and included the boy band hit “Bang Bang Bang.”
74Mb TIL: The Emperor of China who built the Great Wall suppressed intellectual thoughts and unified political opinion by burning books and burying scholars alive.
NgAb TIL The vocalist on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” almost blew off the gig because she had tickets to a Chuck Berry concert and didn’t particularly like Pink Floyd’s music.
wV8o TIL that the smell of fresh Phallus indusiatus, a type of edible fungus, can trigger spontaneous orgasms in women.
xPwo TIL that Neil Armstrong only believed he had a 50/50 chance of making it back to Earth