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TIL Milled rice thrown at weddings is not harmful to birds in anyway and the rumor was spread by Ann Landers in 1996

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oBOrE TIL in 2007, Hong Kong researchers warned the "presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb"
gyKb TIL of the Greenland shark, that eats polar bears, and can live up to 500 years old.
Lkr70 TIL China began efforts to its first manned space flight in 1968 and accomplished the goal in 2003 with Shenzhou 5. The design of Shenzhou resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The Chinese spacecraft is, however, larger than Soyuz and is an all new construction
4XLv6 TIL shortly after George H. W. Bush vomited and fainted at a meeting with the Japanese Prime minister in 1992, a man named James Edward Smith, called CNN posing as the president's physician claiming Bush had died. CNN was within seconds of publishing the story, but stopped the anchor mid sentence.
Xx6k TIL: One man is largely responsible for the complete ban on advertising billboards in the US state of Vermont