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TIL birds can instantly eject their tail feathers when in danger

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oBQN8 TIL the first meeting in history between Japanese emperor Hirohito and US president Richard Nixon was not planned at the outset, because initially the stop in the United States was only for refueling to visit Europe. However, the meeting was decided in a hurry at the request of the United States.
LQ0WV TIL that one of the first recorded black people in Britain was named ‘Reasonable Blackman’ (1579–1592)
N77AN TIL the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century was the 1976 Tangshan quake, killing approx. 250'000 people
6kZm TIL there’s a part of Canada that has black bears, grizzly bears, AND polar bears.
KOjYE TIL to avoid being targets of violence, reporters notebooks took on a smaller format in the Civil Rights Movement and it stuck