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TIL pigeons can develop superstitions like walking counter-clockwise or shaking their head in order to get food

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PYV6Z TIL that Henry Ford once tried to start a colony in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest called "Fordlandia", in which the locals were forced to live a midwestern American lifestyle until they rebelled and chased their managers into the forest
woVxM TIL After the release of the 1965 Czechoslovak film 'Loves of a Blonde' hundreds of boys travelled to the town it was set in, because the film falsely depicted women outnumbering men there 16-1.
4X1QN TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.
epxn5 TIL: Zheng Yi, was a powerful pirate lord who married a floating brothel Madame to combine his might and her information web. This led to the foundation of the Red Flag Fleet, one of the most powerful fleets in China. He then died, and his wife married their stepson and became a female pirate lord.