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TIL of a insurance dispute following the 9/11 attacks of whether or not the attacks constituted 1 or 2 events under the policy terms

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mxaGy TIL that a couple invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding as a joke but the queen actually showed up.
yQePp Crested pigeons have specialized feathers that signal danger when they flee from an apparent threat.
Ad8B TIL that the 1800 election for the US President was an exact tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, so the vote went to the House of Representatives. The House voted 35 times, all of them ties, until Jefferson won on the 36th vote.
loV11 TIL that just before the premiere of the 1977 ABC sitcom Soap, L.A. Times published a leaked memo from the network's standards department: "The colloquy between Peter and Jessica...which relates to cunnilingus/fellatio is obviously unacceptable"
vZ68 TIL Sperm whales hunt upside down toward the bottom of the ocean. They look back up and locate squid by their silhouettes against the light from the surface.