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TIL Roadrunners can fly, they just prefer not to.

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rRVZd TIL Crispbread has been baked in central Sweden since 500 AD. It was made as round wafers with a hole in the middle so the bread could be stored on sticks under the roof.
696ZY TIL a film director who faced a two-year prison sentence for animal cruelty in his movie was exonerated after props made by special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi were exhibited in the courtroom. Rambaldi went on to win three Oscars for his work in King Kong, Alien and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
RBdw TIL sailors used to measure the proof of their rum by mixing it with gunpowder and igniting it. Only the rum that exploded had a good alcohol concentration.
dDYd7 TIL the first same-sex marriage in Spain was performed in the year 1061.
m10mY TIL, In Nazi Germany Art/Artists categorized as Un-German, Communist or Jewish were labeled as "Degenerate Art". Persons labeled were subjected to fine, dismissal or maybe not have permission to produce art.