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TIL Ravens can speak and are considered as intelligent as a seven year old

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5YyrR TIL the tradition of a “short snorter” began with 1920s Alaskan bush pilots. They would sign banknotes for each other, and if they ever met again, and whoever didn't have it would owe a (short) drink. The term came to mean a roll of banknotes joined and covered with signatures.
W7Lvd TIL in China there's a public health issue regarding an illegal practice called "Gutter Oil" as up to 10% of the restaurants use cooking oil manually refined from the sewage waste.
D1npj TIL that when Pokemon Go first came out, it increased U.S. activity levels by 144 billion steps in just 30 days.
V0JZ TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.
grXoX TIL that there is a German man named Marc Wubbenhorst who must drink 20 liters of water every day in order to not die from dehydration. He suffers an extreme case of diabetes insipidus.