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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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R7KZl TIL during season five of sitcom Happy Days, two spin-offs were planned but never eventuated. One would have followed Potsie and Ralph sharing an apartment, the other focused on singer Leather Tuscadero (Suzi Quatro)
dDKK8 TIL that the original job of the coroner was to collect the revenues of the English Crown - legal fines, buried treasure, shipwrecks, and the like. This included the seized estates of suicide victims and murderers, and over time the office of coroner evolved into the modern function.
a8BVb TIL: Pythagoras hated beans and forbid his followers to even touch them, Da Vinci and Norbert Weiner were vegetarian, Charles Darwin ate the exotic animals he studied such as tortoises and armadillos, and Aristophanes attributed Athens' intellect to a low calorie diet.
w5PJ TIL the U.S. government used 1,760 Playstation 3’s to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. Their reason: It was more cost efficient and “green”.
Oopag TIL that Van Halen's "no brown M&Ms" clause was a way to make sure show promoters read the whole contract