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TIL that male peacocks make fake mating sounds to make him seem more popular so females will mate with him.

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VO5B TIL In Australia, cavities in the ground left by fossils will sometimes fill with a liquid containing dissolved opals. When the liquid evaporates, the opal remains, forming opalised fossils. The best example of this is a 6m long Plesiosaur skeleton, completely made of opal (more sources in comments)
Ov4g TIL in 1940 two Royal Australian Air Force training airplanes collided in mid-air, becoming locked together. As the aircraft were traveling in the same direction, they became an impromptu biplane and we’re landed safely by the pilot of the upper plane. There were no deaths.
ANlXl TIL that Nollywood - Nigeria’s Hollywood - is the 2nd biggest film industry in the world. Bollywood is 1st.
XEGDr TIL Mother’s Day was originally a day for women to protest the killing of their sons and husbands in US Civil War
1d9d TIL NASA has decided to use Metric Units for all operations on the lunar surface when it returns to the Moon. The Vision for Space Exploration calls for returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and eventually setting up a manned lunar outpost.