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TIL in 2018, a leaping elk brought down a research helicopter in Utah.

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4k44w TIL The FBI attempted to bribe members of congress in the 80s by forming a fake company. A quarter of all members who were tested accepted the bribe, and were eventually convicted.
Vm1m TIL that the earliest piece of great literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, includes a story in which Gilgamesh is told to build a ship to save the animals of the world from a “great flood”. Nearly 2,000 years later, a similar tale with different names appeared in the Bible’s book of Genesis.
1aNEr TIL the most abundant vertebrate genus in the world is not chickens but probably the bristlemouth fish numbering in maybe quadrillions of members. Basically these tiny fish are everywhere deep in the ocean and even gave strange false bottom readings by sensors of ocean depths when first discovered.
9Y7kD TIL the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that Long Island is legally not an island. Despite the legal decision, the United States Board on Geographic Names still considers it an island, as it is surrounded by water.
p81KA TIL that Bronn from Game of Thrones (Jerome Flynn), was part of a 90’s pop duo that earned three UK number one singles, and a 6x platinum album!