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TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone

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1YVX TIL the Common Kestral used to be called a “Windfucker”
wLZv6 TIL of the discovery of hundreds of fossilized Pterosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. The eggs belong to a previously known species of pterosaur that lived in China more than a hundred million years ago. One such fossil suggests a wingspan of 36 feet making it one of the largest animals ever to fly
KOl9 TIL that during his tenure as Bogota mayor, Antanas Mockus hired 20 mimes to follow and mock those ignoring pedestrian and traffic laws. The program was so popular, he hired 400 more.
v9ER TIL Garth Williams, illustrator of Stuart Little, wrote a kids book in 1958 called “The Rabbits’ Wedding”. An Alabama State Senator claimed the book was “propaganda for integration and intermarriage,” as the book featured a bunny with white fur and another with black.
X0P08 TIL it was not until episode 4 that they started using the famous bionic sound whenever the Six Million Dollar Man used his bionics