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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead
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TIL: Open Skies is an international treaty signed by 34 nations which allows member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over any part of each others territory.
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TIL about the Löwenmensch or Lion Man of Germany. About 12-in. tall, this statue of an anthropomorphic cave lion is about 35,000 to 40,000 years old and was carved from a mammoth tusk. The oldest statue ever discovered, it was found in the same caves as the earliest musical instruments.
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TIL when recording a guest spot on The Simpsons, Justin Timberlake took issue with a line in which he said "Word!" saying it felt inauthentic. As a prank, the staff then edited his dialogue in production so every line ended with him saying "Word!"
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TIL Science Fiction author and editor Harlen Ellison on occasion used the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird to alert members of the public to situations in which he felt his creative contribution to a project had been mangled by others
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TIL the free use of -ass to form punchy adjectives began 100 years ago, with words like "fat-ass" and "silly-ass". By the 1950's, it was particularly productive in forming new American slang. Smart-ass, candy-ass, bad-ass, and crazy-ass were all first found in the 1950s.