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TIL New Caledonian crows create their own hooks to pull out insects from hard to reach crevices. They are the only non-primate that manufacture their own tools.

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7GXx TIL that a stockbroker named Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children to England, saving their lives. He refused to take credit for his deed until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to the BBC. He turns 104 this year.
p84Nb TIL a team of thieves stole $18,000 worth of tracking devices from a warehouse. They were apprehended within hours
j6Maj TIL: It's possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis)
ADWAa TIL that Natalie Portman not only co-authored a paper called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" but that her birth name is Hershlag.
XEQRk TIL Roughly 90% of the world's cargo is actually moved by sea, rather than the world's roadways