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TIL Ravens can speak better than parrots, enjoy playing in the snow, make their own toys, and do weird things with ants

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PKn TIL Malcolm X dodged the draft by telling the enlisting officer that he couldn’t wait to “Steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers!”
jNyXR TIL during WWII a Japanese submarine attacked coastal targets near Ellwood and Santa Barbara, California. The Steven Spielberg film, 1941, is partly based on this incident.
8aXYP TIL Colonel Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition.
oRYJ7 TIL if you time-traveled to the early 1500's, roughly one million of your direct ancestors would be going about their lives on Earth (one million great great great great gr..... grandparents). If they didn't all procreate you wouldn't be alive today.
VB794 TIL Paul Bettany was in blue makeup for many scenes in WandaVision because red makeup appeared too dark in black and white.