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TIL Handedness (directional) preferences are found in birds. When equal safety paths are presented to a bird individual birds will have a definite repeated preferences for a direction to fly.

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e0jab TIL about the confederate cornerstone speech, a speech given by the Confederate Vice President at the beginning of the war, outlining the cornerstones of the Confederate government, including the ideals of racial superiority.
lojd5 TIL singer-songwriter James Blunt served as a captain in the British Army. During the Kosovo war he took along his guitar which was strapped to the outside of his tank and would perform for troops and locals. He also intended to refuse an order to attack Russians to prevent WW3.
xVAj7 TIL of the Great Flood of 1862, which created a 300 mile long sea in California's Central Valley
R5p0Q TIL the Diner's Club was the first company to establish the financial service of issuing travel and entertainment credit cards as a viable business model
d88y7 TIL Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.