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TIL It's not good to feed pigeons in public parks as it significantly increases droppings that can leads to environmental hazards such as serious breathing issues/lung infections in nearby humans.

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KLv6 TIL: Members of the band “Good Charlotte” protested against KFC’s treatment of chickens. Then in 2012 and 2013 appeared in a number of KFC commercials in Australia and even tried to set a world record for eating KFC on “Australia’s Got Talent”
x6eJD TIL That the character who first said the phrase "fortune favours the bold" - Turnus, in the Aeneid, spends the rest of the story suffering military defeats before he's killed and heads to the underworld, miserable, at the end of the last book.
Lgav TIL that James Cameron sold the rights to The Terminator for $1, with the condition that he (Cameron) would direct it.
RYvl TIL Paleontologist Jørn Hurum teamed up with artist Esther van Hulsen to paint an octopus with 95-million-year-old ink
40Aa TIL a Michigan State University professor has created a transparent solar panel that can be used in building to potentially power the entire building. It can also be retrofitted to older glass buildings to still harness power.