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TIL that the word 'bald' in 'bald eagle' has nothing to do with the definition as a lack of hair. Rather, the term bald eagle is derived in English from the word 'piebald', in reference to their white heads and tail feathers in contrast to the darker color of the rest of their bodies.

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oRAjK TIL Ryan Reynolds paid $10,000 of his own money for the right to wear a shirt with The Golden Girl’s Bea Arthur on it in Deadpool. The estate agreed for a donation in that amount to a charity of their choosing. Ryan paid it himself because he felt you couldn’t have Deadpool without Bea Arthur.
LBr0 TIL there are 3 cages hanging from the steeple of St. Lambert’s Church, Münster. They have hung there for 479 years. These 3 cages held the corpses of the 3 Anabaptist leaders tortured to death after the fall of Münster in 1536.
W7gDY TIL, Weather forecasters tend to exaggerate the chance of rain because if it rains when they said it wouldn't, people get angry, but if it doesn't rain when they said it would, they are happy. This is known as "wet bias."
ANlwg TIL the architect of the Sydney Opera House left midway though construction and never returned to Australia. He died some 40 years later having never seen his work.
nGXY TIL Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles sang the studio recording of “Eternal Flame” completely naked due to the producer pranking her by telling her Olivia Newton John had done the same thing. He later told Hoffs he had been lying the whole time.