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6EGoZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, Inmate 4859, who volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to collect intelligence and escape two and a half years later. He was executed by the Soviet puppet state in Poland in 1948.
R7pl1 TIL that beavers build dams because they hate the sound of running water. A researcher set up speakers that played the audio of running water in multiple beaver populated areas, and the next morning found them to be covered in layers of sticks and mud.
Oo4Jg TIL, Kenny Loggins was one of many collaborators on the song "We Are The World" by USA for Africa, and that would lead to him to performing Footloose at the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid famine relief concert event of the 1980s.
9w7DQ TIL that CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to eliminate awkward silences. This went unnoticed until a viewer, familiar with the bird songs of the region, realized the sounds were from birds that didn't inhabit the area where the tournament was being held.
p8nOA TIL I learned of the Na people, a matrilineal society where women are in charge and "walking marriages" are practiced: women are free to initiate sexual relationships with one or more men, and any children born from these unions are cared for by the woman's brothers.