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TIL That certain species of hawk in Australia have been known to purposely spread wildfires beyond firebreaks in order to force prey out into the open

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4KNX TIL Griffith created the WikiScanner in August 2007, which cross-references IP addresses, company IP address ownership, and content edits. WikiScanner located violators of Wikipedia rules, such as the Vatican, Wal-Mart, FBI, CIA, Church of Scientology, Exxon, Microsoft, Apple, and the UN.
9YEY6 TIL 69 year ago on April 20th, Danny DeVito's favorite movie "Miracle in Milan" by Vittorio De Sica, was awarded with the Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival.
ndvG TIL Mob boss John Gotti would offer coffee to the FBI agents assigned to tail him.
QJ87a TIL that in 2007, China executed the head of the State Food and Drug Administration (Chinese FDA) for accepting bribes and approving unsafe medicines.
oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.