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TIL That falcons are closer related to parrots and songbirds than to other raptors like eagles

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EPBW TIL that 53% of people in Fiji have no access to safe drinking water, despite the Fiji Water bottling company’s activity there.
R7KA8 TIL the man who eulogized George Washington with the famous quote "First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen" was Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, father of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
L5Ep TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year.
7rlpx TIL that Christmas as we know it (family gatherings, seasonal food & drink, games, festive generosity, even saying Merry Christmas), is largely the result of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Before 1843 Christmas was associated w/ countryside peasant revelry & disconnected from modern city life.
VBgKG TIL The ancient Greeks may have based their mythological monsters off fossilised dinosaurs they discovered