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TIL that baby owls sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.

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vPp6j TIL September is the most popular month for birthdays in the U.S. Sep. 9 is the most common birthday date. More babies have been born on Sept. 9 than any other day of the year, according to data compiled by FiveThirtyEight, based on registered births in the U.S. from 1994 to 2014.
J1Lm4 TIL that the first item ever securely purchased over the Internet was a compact disc of Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales. It sold for $12.48 plus shipping.
ne6E7 TIL that a Scottish man lost 276 pounds by not eating for 382 days. He only drank tea, coffee, and sparkling water and took vitamin supplements.
a8LOb TIL The Spanish were the first European settlers in the Florida Keys, and upon unearthing a burial mound on one of the southernmost keys, they named it Caya Hueso, Bone Island, a name later Anglicized into Key West. Spain officially relinquished control of Florida to the United States in 1821.
nM1W TIL that Germany during WW2 dropped on Britain propaganda leaflets showing Churchill carrying a machine gun, calling him a “gangster” who encouraged murder. The leaflets stopped when the Nazis realized that they made the prime minister more popular in the UK.