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TIL there is a park in London where pelicans eat pigeons

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ne9D7 TIL that a 25 year old Kenyan man invented smart gloves that can convert sign language movements into speech.
KOpla TIL President Kennedy's daughter Caroline was given a puppy by the Soviets in 1961. The puppy's mother, Strelka, had earlier been launched into space during Sputnik. JFK's Thank You letter to the Soviets opened a channel of communication that helped divert the Cuban Missile Crisis 16 months later.
b6g49 TIL Early Superman comics taught kids how to achieve super-strength through exercises in lifting armchairs, getting a super-grip, and achieving super-vision by glancing at distant and near objects repeatedly
gMPMX TIL that in 1973, three NASA astronauts staged a strike in Space to protest grueling workloads. This caused astronauts now to have better working conditions and breaks between missions.
GYvv5 TIL the rhinoceros viper is found in the forests of West and Central Africa. This colorful and nocturnal viper is considered to be one of the most venomous snakes in Africa, producing both a neurotoxic as well as hemotoxic venom, although very few cases of human envenomation have ever been reported.