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TIL Swooping season in a thing in Australia, with over 4000 annual incidents of magpies attacking humans to defend their nests, and common solutions including strapping helmets to your kids on their way to school

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bj67 TIL Your immune system destroys at least one cell every day that would have become cancer if it lived
x4a7 TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater
6JMw TIL a German U-boat mysteriously disappeared in 1945 and the sole survivor of its crew, who missed the voyage due to illness, found out about the fate of his shipmates in 1999 by watching a NOVA episode about the submarine
GA5W4 TIL The first Presidential Car to pass Secret Service demands was the Sunshine Special - a V12 1939 Lincoln Model K limousine that was used as the official state car by United States presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman which cost only $108,426 in 2023 dollars.
GYl4j TIL Pablo Escobar offered to pay the entirety of Colombia’s $20 billion debt to avoid extradition to the United States.