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TIL that there is a type of bird called Secretary Bird which specializes in stomping their prey until it is killed or immobilized

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Za8a TIL a common medical procedure for people with severe brain injuries is to have part of their skull stored in their stomach temporarily while the brain heals
P1OjG TIL that after the Battle of Pilska in 811 AD, the Bulgarian emperor Krum the Fearsome had the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros l who was killed in the battle to have his skull be covered in silver in which Krum then used as a drinking cup.
epnjn TIL 24 year old Clyde Tombaugh won a scholarship at University of Kansas to study astronomy after discovering Pluto. He also discovered several galactic star clusters, hundreds of asteroids, a comet, a cluster of 1,800 galaxies and other observations
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
9RBG TIL that the color orange was named after the fruit. Before that, the color was typically referred to as “yellow-red”, leading to many orange things being described as “red”, such as red hair, red deer, and robin redbreast.