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TIL Roadrunners can fly, they just prefer not to.

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9YxGp TIL the "Nigerian Prince" money scam people receive through email can actually be dated back as far as the 1830s, with people receiving letters that falsely promise gold and diamonds in return for money.
OGPmY TIL the political satire called "El Apóstol"(1917) consisted of 58,000 drawings and lasted 70 minutes! Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. But a fire in 1926 destroyed the film studio, including El Apóstol. It is now considered a lost film.
9YorM TIL that hospitals can and do prescribe alcohol to patients in order to prevent delirium tremens and alcoholic withdrawal
XENME TIL of a "body farm", where the decomposition of human corpses is studied by leaving bodies outside in a variety of topographic and climate conditions. There are facilities in US, Canada, Australia, India, and UK. Over 100 bodies are donated to the University of Tennessee facility alone every year.
Wr84 TIL that Red Bull recommends that the drink should not be mixed with alcohol. It’s even printed on the can.