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TIL that owls have legit legs under their coats.

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VAA4 TIL that 10 years ago during financial trouble, FC Barcelona almost let Lionel Messi leave the club for free.
7rAr TIL of a 1970s childrens book called Show Me!, it depicts children from ages 6 to their early teens exploring eachother sexually. It received many awards and good reviews, but was pulled from shelves do to the sex abuse hysteria.
LDwP TIL the Soviets had made a prototype laser pistol for use by their astronauts. The pistol was deigned to burn a hole through the spacesuits of enemy astronauts, killing them via suffocation and/or explosive decompression.
jV7Q TIL The Disneyland attraction Pirates of the Caribbean once used real human skeletons. Today, the skeletons have been replaced with false skeletons, all but one very real skull and crossbones.
J1aoV TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.