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Today I learned seagulls can live for up to 30 years

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1aPd8 TIL of the Lockheed bribery scandals. Starting in the 1950s, officials of Lockheed, the aerospace company, bribed many influential individuals including a Dutch prince, a Japanese mob boss and a Saudi Arabian arms dealer in order to negotiate favourable deals. The bribes were exposed in the 1970s.
RDVa TIL there is a part of Kentucky that is surrounded by Missouri and is only accessible via Tennessee.
OoJWL TIL Tardigrades, or water bears, were filmed mating for the first time in 2016 by German researchers. The female lays eggs, the male gets into position (a process that can be several minutes); they engage in mutual stimulation till the male ejaculates his semen into the female's outer layer of skin.
R7Ayw TIL Africa is reputed to be the most complex multilingual part of the world with over 2,086 indigenous languages. Consequently, most adult Africans are multilingual in their mother tongue, another indigenous and/or a widely spoken African language, and the language of their former colonizer
Wk4m8 TIL that safflower, which has long been cultivated for food by humans, was sometimes also referred to as "bastard saffron"