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TIL the best tasting animal is the Kudu from South Africa; the worst is the common seagull.

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dD8bK TIL Loons are like airplanes in that they need a runway for takeoff. In the case of loons, they need from 30 yards up to a quarter-mile (depending on the wind) for flapping their wings and running across the top of the water in order to gain enough speed for lift-off.
nWwLW TIL about "Terminal Lucidity." The unexpected return of mental clarity and memory shortly before the death of patients suffering from severe psychiatric and neurologic disorders
WkO5Y TIL about the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was signed in 1928 and made war illegal, even though the pact had no mechanisms for enforcement
DQ1Nr TIL a supposedly cursed Lipinski Stradivarius violin was stolen by a small-time weed dealer from Milwaukee who became obsessed with the violin while pretending to be a high-end art thief.
LknwV TIL Ted Bundy wore turtlenecks to cover a mole on his neck that would have made it easier to identify him as the perpetrator in crimes