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TIL Benjamin Franklin thought the Bald Eagle was unfit to be a national symbol because it was “a Bird of bad moral character that does not get his Living honestly.”He felt the Turkey would be better because it was a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards

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aw67M TIL nobody really knows where Bosnia ends and Herzegovina begins,and there is no official or universally accepted boundary in the country between the two regions
Jjom TIL in 1985, the writers of Sesame Street decided that the adult characters needed to be shown to believe Big Bird about Snuffleupagus due to concerns that if they did not, children would fear that adults/parents would not believe them about an adult abusing them if they told.
R5pA6 TIL about Mónica Macías, the daughter of Equatorial Guinea's first president, and who was partially raised by North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung
PJaO TIL in 2010 an insurance company denied coverage for surgery to repair a newborn’s heart defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart are reversed, as it was a “pre-existing condition.”
69vJw TIL of "Palilalia," a condition in which some people repeat their own words to themselves, usually although not always under their breath.