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TIL Stars are so foreign to people living in Los Angeles that when the 1994 earthquake knocked out power they called local officials to question them about the strange thing in the sky, it was the Milky Way.

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4aoo TIL that Warren Buffett got so mad that his son’s adopted daughter appeared on the documentary “The One Percent” that he disowned her and sent her a letter that said she had “never been considered a real family member” and had “not been legally or emotionally adopted” by him.
R5nwa TIL that despite having brains the size of poppy seeds, bees are able to recognize and remember human faces. In a study, researchers paired images of human faces with sugar-laced water, and bees were able to recognize and remember the faces even when the reward was no longer present.
Ooakg TIL that there have been at least six instances of chimpanzees stealing and eating human babies.
pY1RQ TIL a Japanese community center has made trading cards based on local male elders - Soba Master and Firewall are just a few
v19QL TIL that Sidepony Express Music Festival, in a small mining and border town Bisbee, AZ, is known as a music festival for musicians. There are often over 100 bands from all over the Southwest, and they play 45 minute sets, back to back, at all the music venues in town: