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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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XjQ TIL One cannot maintain an erection in space.
9YLYr TIL about a glass bridge in China. Using special effects, whenever there was someone walking over it, the glass became "cracked" and everyone would freak out. Oh yea, and these glass bridges link tall mountains, so if you fall, you die.
LkE4d TIL San Diego Zoo had an orangutan named Ken who escaped several times. During his escapes, he just wandered around the zoo & looked at all the animals in their enclosures. One time, he went to the enclosure of another orangutan he disliked & threw rocks at him.
aGP9 TIL of Harry Thaw who killed architect Stanford White and was acquitted based on the defense of “dementia Americana,” a phenomenon that caused American men to become temporarily insane and seek revenge against those who had tainted their wives’ virtue. Thaw had married White’s former mistress.
omVR TIL on July 17, 1938, Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan entered aviation infamy and gained his nickname when he “accidentally” flew from New York to California but ended up in Ireland after being denied permission to cross the Atlantic by authorities.