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TIL Tossing Puffin Chicks off of a cliff in Iceland is vital to the survival of the species

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E1xYo TIL Magnus Carlson played 10 chess games simultaneously with his back turned and won 7 of them
EGbV TIL that the Queen owns all unmarked swans in open water and that she is the “officially appointed ‘Swan Keeper’ of England.”
xw00 TIL hockey announcer Doc Emrick used 153 distinct verbs to describe the movement of the hockey puck in the 2014 Olympic game between USA and Canada.
7rMrX TIL that the famous novel Moby Dick was inspired from the Essex tragedy where a sperm whale attacked and sunk the 20 man American whaler
ADEPx TIL in 1959 Alfred Hitchcock was approached to direct the first James Bond movie. However, he did not want to make another spy thriller right after "North by Northwest", and instead started working on "Psycho".