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TIL Nikon camera brand belongs to Mitsubishi

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691DW TIL crows can report on what they've seen, and change how they report it based on how they are asked to do so.
e0OlE TIL that the book Esteban Vallejo is reading in "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is made up and named for a production assistant on the film.
j9ov TIL of Newton Knight, a Southern Unionist who formed the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters in Jones County, Mississippi which fought a guerrilla war against the CSA. After the Civil War, he married a former slave and fought the KKK leading an otherwise all black regiment.
9YWvG TIL that people whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities
m1vPE TIL that the father of the Doors’ guitarist Robby Krieger, Stu, loved picking up young hitchhikers in the ‘60s & ‘70s as it gave him an opportunity to brag about his son. Robby’s dad was also the one who got Ray Manzarek his Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, which was an important part of the Doors’ sound.