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TIL Colonel Remy Van Lierde DFC took a photograph of 50ft snake while flying over the Congo in 1959. Stating the snake rose up 10ft to attack the helicopter he was piloting

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xnMk TIL the McRib is being sold all year round at McDonald’s in Germany, it has been a permanent menu item since 1985.
R5Mm7 TIL that for the last 100-200 years, we’ve been living through the 6th (or 7th) recognized mass extinction event. Extinction rates are currently estimated to be 100 to 1000 times higher than before. The Holocene Extinction is a result of humans destroying habitats and killing too many animals.
Bg0Ze TIL about the Horseshoe Crab and how this ancient creature has been exploited by medical laboratories with little regulation.
woxOE TIL that questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Queen Victoria and that she may have been the result of an affair with a non-royal. This has revolved around the hereditary haemophilia that she was the carrier for, and that hadn’t been detected in the royal bloodline previously.
Y6jZ TIL in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that to portray an Android well he shouldn’t blink. Osment does not blink once during the entire film.