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TIL that crocodilians are the closest living relatives of birds

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W7Opo TIL that in the year following the famous DB Cooper hijacking at least 14 copycat hijackers tried to reenact the ploy by hijacking Boeing 727 aircraft and demanding ransom and parachutes. Some successfully jumped out but all were captured within days, were shot or surrendered sooner or later.
P1MOJ TIL that cats are more vocal with humans than with other cats.
l7OpB TIL that the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Europe. America’s Spanish and French allies besieged Gibraltar, at one point attacking with 60,000 men, but were defeated by the 5,000 British defenders.
yQnbl TIL In 2013, Toronto surpassed Chicago as the fourth largest city in North America. Except for a brief rise in the 1990s, Chicago’s population has been steadily shrinking since the 1950s, when it was the nation’s second largest city
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."