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TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment

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6EJG8 TIL of Nancy Hart, a heroine of the American revolutionary war celebrated for repeatedly outsmarting and killing loyalist soldiers in Georgia.She is best known for an incident where she singlehandedly incapacitated 6 Tory soldiers who walked into her home and demanded that she cook a turkey for them
Y786G TIL The Khejarli massacre in 1730 resulted in 363 protestors being killed while protecting a forest. This gave rise to the "Chipko Movement" also known as "Tree huggers" in India
4X8Rg TIL 85% of Nigerians view China’s influence positively, with only 10% expressing a negative view, making Nigeria the most pro-Chinese nation in the world
OXd7 TIL Michelle Pfeiffer was taken in by a cult early in her career and gave them most of her acting money. She was deprogrammed as a result of a movie on the subject.
epA1E TIL that the North American Wildlife Research Team set up a trap to catch Bigfoot, and it managed to catch 6 bears.