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TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson’s pigeons.

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awAX0 TIL that the company that makes Nutella, Ferrero is the world's largest consumer of hazelnuts, buying around 25% of global production in 2014.
9YMnM TIL that camels and humans are the only non-aquatic mammals that do not eat their placenta.
R7JG6 TIL of the Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger", which means that people will accept absurd information, as long as enough people are saying it.
J1B04 TIL about the Namamugi Incident, a 1862 diplomatic crisis that occurred when a British merchant refused to dismount for a Japanese daimyō's procession and was killed by his bodyguards, sparking the brief Anglo-Satsuma War.
9wdmp TIL Rats, gerbils, mice, birds, fish, monkeys, and chimpanzees all prefer making an effort to obtain their food over having it provided for free. Of all the studied animals, only cats did not display the behaviour, preferring to be served.