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TIL Vampire finches drink the blood of other birds

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rRWQo TIL Lego's brick making is so accurate only 18 in every million bricks made are defective, which are then recycled.
ggVA TIL: After the battle of Waterloo in 1815, scavengers pulled so many teeth from the 50,000 dead soldiers, they caused the price of false teeth to fall in Britain to an affordable rate for the middle class.
4XvxX TIL that ITT Tech was known for widespread grade inflation in order for students to receive more federal financial aid. In one instance, a student got a 100% on a computer forensics assignment by emailing the professor a noodle recipe.
Z869B TIL Beauty and the Beast was one of the first feature-length animated films to use CGI, prominently exhibited in the background and sweeping camera of the ballroom sequence. The ballroom's dimensions read 72ft high, 184ft long and 126ft wide, with 28 windows and a dome that measures 86 by 61 feet.
xNk7 TIL that, when the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo, was found with a self inflicted gunshot wound in his chest, he was pumped full of American blood, allowed to recover, and then later hanged for his war crimes.