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TIL falcons on the Moroccan island of Mogador catch small birds, then remove their flight and tail feathers and imprison them in crevasses in the rock to eat later.

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oBMLY TIL there are only 25 blimps.
MelaB TIL when Japan's first railway was introduced, the USA, France, and the UK bid to build the system, with the UK winning. The railways they set up were left-side running, and that was later adopted by Japanese cars. Today, Japan is one of the only non-Commonwealth countries with left-side driving
OGZo1 TIL that after John Lennon's murder, Keith Richards, who was a few miles south of the Dakota at the time, got his own gun and was searching through the streets for the killer
W7VK8 TIL: FDA's Shocking Drug Approval Loopholes Discovered the FDA's drug approval loopholes in "Truth is an Illusion" by Aretha Gonyora. "Accelerated approval" & "breakthrough therapy" designations can lead to insufficient safety testing—troubling when lives are at stake.
PbQL TIL animators and fx artists for Disney’s Frozen were sent to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to experience walking, running, and falling in deep snow. Both male and female personnel tried on long skirts to see how they interacted with the snow.