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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story

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ZgwR TIL that after the “Miracle on the Hudson”, where an Airbus A320 ditched into the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese, the US Department of Agriculture and Wildlife services gassed 1,235 Canadian Geese and coated 1,739 of their eggs in corn oil to suffocate the offspring.
xVWXk TIL about Bluefields, an English-speaking town in Spanish-speaking Nicaragua, which was named after a Dutch-Jewish pirate, was previously part of the Mosquito (Miskito) Kingdom, and was only connected to the rest of the country by road in 2019
orRY TIL M. Night Shyamalan has won more awards for how bad his works are than awards for how good his works are.
p8nvp Today I learned that London taxicab drivers have to obtain something called "The Knowledge", an in depth understanding of London and it's streets, proven by a number of examinations. It's the world's most demanding training for taxi drivers
6ayQ TIL a study has been published stating that being naked “led to an increase in life satisfaction, an effect that was also mediated by improvements in body image and self-esteem”