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TIL that rubies are just red sapphires.

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xVapk TIL Bald Eagles sound like seagulls. The sound they’re often presented making is actually from a hawk.
l7n1B TIL that after writing Pet Sematary, Stephen King hid it away and intended to never publish it, believing it was too disturbing. It was only published because his contract with a former publisher required him to give them one more novel. He considers it the scariest thing he's ever written.
1408 TIL When Prince and Weird Al sat in the same row at an awards show, Prince’s management company demanded that Weird Al refrain from making eye contact
eN9D TIL: One night in 1998, activists from the Animal Liberation Front crept onto a farm in the New Forest, England. Their goal was to save a group of 6,500 minks. No sooner were they freed than the minks went on a rampage. Guinea pigs, cats, chickens, and water voles all fell victim to the mink hordes.
Gnx1 TIL that Salvador Dali used to avoid paying at restaurants by drawing on checks. He knew that the owner would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art.