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TIL That Magpies hold funerals for their dead
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TIL women lost her wedding ring for 16 years before finding it growing on a carrot in her garden.
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TIL that the males of the Redback Spider are not just killed and partially eaten by females during sex but they actually offer themselves to their wives in an astonishing gesture of sexual sacrifice
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TIL a Pakistani squash player (Jahangir Khan) won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
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TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century.
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TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.