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

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5Vwg9 TIL in 2010, officials in Tokyo went to congratulate the oldest man in the city, Sogen Kato, on his 111th birthday, but instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He’d been dead for 30 years but his family had kept it secret to continue collecting his pension money.
KQMB TIL In Idaho, if a person’s perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person, the witness is then subject to the death penalty as well.
DZwV TIL that in 1987 two Brazilian men looking for scrap, unknowinlgy stole a teletherapy unit, along with the highly radioactive Caesium 137 in it, took it home and tried to dismantle it, directly killing 4 and contaminating 250 people in their wake.
wYJ8 TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.
w6jM TIL all humans start out as an asshole in the womb since it’s the first body part to form.