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TIL trained hawks humanely assist the movement of thousands of roosting crows in downtown Portland, OR.

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ANVjo TIL that the only taxidermied blue whale in the world is located at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. A hinged jaw was made so people could walk around inside until a couple was found having sex. Now the jaws are only opened on special occasions.
VMY6G TIL: White people are only 6.5% of the world’s population
Yp5xP TIL that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named one of his most famous villains, Auric Goldfinger, after the architect in revenge for his bulldozing of a number of Victorian villas in order to build his own modern home at Willow Road in Hampstead.
J1bZV TIL Monaco is the only place in Europe where credit card points are not redeemable nor can you accumulate hotel points
VMKmQ TIL of SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver, who survived a free fall from space after his plane disintegrated around him doing Mach 3.2