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TIL the collective term for cardinals (the bird) is a Vatican

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m15Yx TIL that German law imposes a duty upon everyone to provide aid or assistance to people who are injured. Three people were prosecuted and fined for failing to provide assistance to a man who collapsed in a bank and later died.
4XjXJ TIL whales and dolphins evolved from a meat eating terrestrial cow relative that likely had hooves and a cow-like multi-chambered, ruminant digestive system. Modern Cetaceans still have a ruminant-like digestive system described as a “hybrid” between true carnivores and herbivores.
5Y7E8 TIL about Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious boogeyman that was said to ring residents of Londons’ doorbells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. Sightings of him stretched from 1837 to 1904.
ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.
LDJp TIL that the theme song for Nick’s “The Amanda Show” is a remix of music from a level in Spyro the Dragon - both were credited to the same guy, who wrote all of the music for the original Spyro trilogy: Stewart Copeland.