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TIL that there are birds called "boobies"

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GAyl7 TIL that a steel bridge in India is being dangerously eroded by pedestrians spitting on it
1MXP TIL that the company that produces Sriracha hot sauce made $60 million in the year 2012 alone, while not spending one penny at all on advertising.
aw7LJ TIL that nearly 70 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona continues to leak up to 9 quarts of oil each day.
8aeOX TIL After the British set fire to Washington D.C. during the War Of 1812, a tornado appeared out of nowhere and put out the fire saving Washington D.C.
Bg0Jy TIL in the late 1970s a teenage boy stole 50 paintings valued at over $300,000 from a Pennsylvania art museum by slipping them out the window and later selling them through Sotheby's in NYC.