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TIL the FBI placed a GPS tracking device on a student’s car for his Reddit comments

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OGYGa TIL; In August 1976, US and South Korean men were trimming a poplar tree obscuring a view between a checkpoint & observation post - A group of North Koreans appeared demanding they stop cutting branches. Capt Bonifas ignored them & then they attacked using clubs & axes taken from the gardening group
0doNp TIL - Mauritius has a Species of pigeon called the Pink pigeon, it came very close to extinction in the 20th century however conservation efforts have kept the species alive and growing.
xxRk TIL A gymnast at the Rio Olympics named Marisa Dick created a new move for the balance beam and was the first to use it in competition. A “change-leg leap to free-cross split sit” is now known as The Dick Move.
7OZX TIL that a Formula One driver was killed when a bird flew into his face.
QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter