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TIL In the 19th century naturalist John James Audubon observed a flock of passenger pigeons over Minnesota that took three days to pass his observation point and, in doing so it totally blocked out the sun so that the entire area lived in a bird-created total eclipse.

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4XEgR TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London subway station that was being used as a shelter from German bombing during World War II.
KOmpR TIL about the number of attempts to burn down the Gävle goat, including one where the online webcams keeping watch were attacked by a DoS attack, just before the goat was burnt
gV7b TIL Michael Jordan was once asked why he wouldn’t endorse black democratic candidate Harvey Gantt in a North Carolina senate race, to which Michael Jordan responded, “Republicans buy shoes too”.
JoZm TIL the first use of “toast” as a metaphorical term for “you’re dead” was in the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
wLvDY TIL of Aimo Koivunen, who during WW2 became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He entered into a state of delirium and became separated from his patrol for a week. In that time he was injured by a land mine, caught and ate a raw bird, and skied 400km.