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TIL When a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it will drop a matching feather on the other side to maintain its balance.

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AkkB TIL Mayans exist today. They will be celebrating a new era on Dec 21st, not the end of the World.
neV7 TIL on September 6, 1949, a mentally disturbed WWII vet killed 13 of his neighbors and injured 3 more in what is considered the first single-episode mass murder in US history. When he died in 2009, his last words were “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”
xVVRg TIL of John Hines, an Australian soldier, nicknamed the souvenir king.
lWgB TIL that a fourteen year-old boy, bleeding from the anus and heavily drugged, managed to escape Jeffery Dahmer only to be returned to him after Dahmer convinced police the boy was his lover.
nely9 TIL In 1957, five US Air Force officers volunteered to stand at 'ground zero' directly under a nuclear explosion 18,500 feet above their heads to 'prove how safe it was'