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TIL that after Steve Irwin’s death, his fans began cutting the tails off stingrays in revenge attacks

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e066b TIL that a number of private US universities (including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had quotas on the maximum number of Jews to be admitted. In 1935, Yale's Med School Dean stated: "Never admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all."
6EybJ TIL that that fluting sound some pigeons make when taking off are made by their wing feathers, and serve as an alarm system to other pigeons.
lbdG TIL: A man saved a newborn baby from dumpster and found out that he was the father. The baby’s mother told the police she did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth to the child and allegedly put the living baby in a garbage bag and tossed him into the dumpster.
R58Zl TIL: In 2019, Vice discovered that a growing number of Chinese women were turning to paid virtual boyfriends. The interactions mainly consist of them being hired to sing them to sleep, send them compliments, and chat with them via text or call.
wop7 TIL Joan of Arc broke her sword, believed to be holy and made in heaven, by beating a prostitute with it.