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TIL that most of the presidentially pardoned turkeys die within a year of being spared

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JYa84 TIL that the word "sabotage" comes from the French word for clog; "sabot". When looms were industrialised, redundant workers would throw their clogs into the machinery and this became known as sabotage. It is theorised that this is also the origin of the phrase "clogged up".
E1y1V TIL that Animal Planet made a video, showing what would it looked like, if people mated like angler fish.
ZjQa TIL the actors who played the parents in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off met on-set and later married each other
9vVm TIL that Bear Grylls admits that one his most spectacular scars is from a time when he was baking a pizza in his kitchen naked, he leaned in too far when pulling it out and got burned across the chest by the hot oven rack.
ANOl TIL that Mike Tyson got into his first fight after an older boy had ripped the head off one of Tyson’s pigeons.