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TIL steppe eagle named Min was set out with SMS tracker attached by Russian researchers. Little did they know Min, a globetrotting eagle appeared in Iran and sent hundreds of texts with roaming rates that bankrupt scientific study.

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KYvZ9 TIL in a 1939 basketball match Estonia beat Finland with a score of 91 to 1 (one)
07j5 TIL That through a series of experiments in the Polytechnic Institute of New York, a robotic fish ended up becoming the leader of a school of live fish.
Z8P9D TIL There is a network of colleges that advocate the use of open licensed textbooks with professors adopting these books into their curriculum. As more textbooks are adopted, eventually students will less likely have to buy textbook for their courses in the future
4XnkJ TIL paparazzi once misidentified Debbie Harry (lead singer of Blondie) for film star Lindsay Lohan. When it happened in 2012, Lohan was 25 years old and Harry was 66.
P1LDO TIL that when on shore leave in Singapore, members of the Royal Australian Navy used to get atop a public toilet building in Bugis and perform “The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes”