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TIL that cocks don't have a cock

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8a66G TIL that Veruska Ramirez, a former Miss Universe model from Venezuela, was abducted for 3 hours in 2003. She was released, after she signed some autographs for her captors
5Yg6k TIL Bambi is listed in the Top 25 Horror Movies of all Time by Time magazine. Bambi, Time states, "has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago.”
R51j4 TIL about Daf Yomi (Hebrew for "page of the day"), an international program in which people read one page of the Babylonian Talmud every day. It began in 1920 and it takes 7 1/2 years to complete one reading. Today there are daily podcasts and online forums dedicated to that day's reading
D1nZj TIL Polar Bears have recently been migrating further south and mating with Grizzly bears, creating a hybrid called Grolar Bears.
4XYG5 TIL that airports use birds, like ravens and raptors, in order to drive birds away from the landing and departing aircraft.