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TIL that crows can remember the face of their captors—even after generations.

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8vnL TIL a woman named Irena Sendler, who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, saved 2,500 Jewish children’s lives by smuggling them out, she was eventually caught and tortured. In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on global warming.
8al9V TIL researchers trained pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and by Monet. They won the humorous Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for their work.
oBdrE TIL that while Drew Struzan is famous for his movie posters, he also designed album cover artwork for many artists including The Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Roy Orbison, Black Sabbath, Glenn Miller, Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper, Bach, Earth, Wind and Fire and Liberace.
vPVer TIL Tonight show Impersonator Rich Little is still alive and performing.
oBKVr TIL the Toyota Matrix's odometer has a glitch where it stops 299,999 miles, technically making it a "glitch in the matrix"