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TIL before the 1900’s, it was theorised that birds slept at the bottom of lakes or migrated to the moon for the winter.

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1Wd7 TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
PY5JJ TIL that Major League Baseball is the second-highest-grossing sports league in the world, only slightly behind the NFL
m1jXR TIL the cocoa leaves used to make Coca Cola have the cocaine removed at the Stepan Company plant in Maywood, NJ. It is the only company legally allowed to import & process them. The extracted cocaine is sold to Mallinckrodt to be refined for medicinal use.
oROgo TIL A music video was made for Bee Gee's "Night Fever" in 1978, but not shown to the public until 26 years later, in 2004. It shows them singing in a darkened studio, layered over background video filmed while driving along Sunny Isles Beach, Florida and many places shown no longer exist
vAoL TIL Pythagorean cup is a cup that automatically empties itself if you fill it too much.