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TIL After the Landing on the Hudson by Captain Sullenberger due to bird strike, NYC killed nearly 70,000 Canadian Geese, Gulls, and other birds in response

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BrxQL TIL that in 1874, a book titled "Shadows from the Walls of Death" was published that warned about the use of poisonous arsenic dyes in wallpaper, and the book contained specimens of the wallpaper. The book was so toxic that all but four copies have been destroyed.
vnAL (TIL) Liechtenstein a nation smaller than the size of Washington D.C. has been accidentally invaded three times in the past thirty years by their neighbor Switzerland.
yQAPw TIL that the team that helped Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first climb Mount Everest in 1953 numbered at nearly 400 persons. There were 350 porters, 30 Sherpas, and 13 climbers.
9YEdD TIL All Cows are female...
78nGP TIL that despite publicly denouncing the film adaptation of his novel, I Spit on Your Graves, Boris Vian attended movie’s premiere in 1959. A few minutes into the screening, he stood up and began shouting out his dissatisfaction with it, during which he suddenly collapsed and died.