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TIL that Doves and Pigeons are the same bird. For example the common pigeon, Columba livia, is called a rock dove or a rock pigeon

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mGav TIL in 1994, IBM released a cell phone with touch screen and e-mail. It could also send and receive faxes, work as a pager, and was considered the world’s first smart phone due to its features and capabilities.
ep4N4 TIL that the USS Bowfin is the only submarine ever to sink a bus with a torpedo.
0E95 TIL Michael Massee, the actor whose gun killed Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow, took a year off from acting after the accident and still has nightmares about it. “I don’t think you ever get over something like that,” he said.
e0k5E TIL about a bear name Mink that lived in Hanover, New Hampshire. A man used to feed her donuts everyday but unfortunately the man died. She ventured into town in search of the treat forcing officials to relocate her. But the determined bear walked over a thousand miles back to Hanover.
N77E8 TIL the Miss South Carolina teen who became an internet meme for her incomprehensible answer contemplated suicide after her pageant flub