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TIL, a group of zebras can be called a "dazzle" of zebras.

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n1eo TIL of the unintended effect the film “Black Hawk Down” had on the Somalis in Mogadishu. They cheered during a screening of their bootleg copy every time an American was killed, and some were even proud of how they were portrayed in the film.
P1mEL TIL that the Guinness World Records no longer celebrates "The Loudest Band in the World" for fear of promoting hearing loss. Before they discontinued the record, they had at various points recognized Deep Purple, The Who and Manowar as the record holders.
Boky TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering ‘financial compensation’ to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
kJ0dE TIL Claude Shannon (the father of Information Theory) designed one of the first Chess playing machines in 1949 that could only handle endgames and no more than six pieces at a time