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TIL that crows recognise human faces and hold grudges against ones they don’t like

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5L8R TIL that, in terms of wars won and lost, the French military has the best military record in Europe, having won 109, drawn 10, and lost 49 of the wars it’s participated in since 387 BCE
E11wW TIL A ten year old Brooke Shields posed nude for Playboy magazine
KZbw TIL a tortoise named ‘Harriet’ died in 2006 at the age of 176. To put that into perspective, she was a pet of Charles Darwin in 1835 and lived until blu-ray discs were available.
9v4m TIL Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia because Virginia’s only other college at the time, College of William & Mary, was too religious and did not have enough science courses.
4X4M5 TIL Richard Dean Anderson and a bushel of other 80 action stars all turned down the role of John McClane in Die Hard before Bruce Willis was chosen for the role.