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TIL that a group of hippos is called a "bloat".

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WkJJX TIL More than a dozen people who witnessed Michael Jackson's final six hour rehearsal the day before he died – from his promoter to his choreographer to his musicians – all agree on one thing: Jackson was better than he’d ever been. He was singing and out-dancing the young pros that surrounded him
W7L6N TIL Hans Christian Anderson was huge fanboy of Charles Dickens & annoyed the hell out of him by overstaying his welcome as a guest
DAg TIL that Jesse Owens said “Hitler didn’t snub me–it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram,” and that Owens was cheered enthusiastically by 110,000 people in Berlin, but couldn’t even stay in the same hotels as whites in America.
BgmDx TIL about Cher Ami, a WWI homing pigeon who was shot through the chest, blinded in one eye, and flying with a nearly severed leg—yet still delivered a message that saved 194 men, earned a Croix de Guerre, and now rests in the Smithsonian.
VBRwm TIL that 73% of Americans die in debt with an average of $62000 per person.