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9Y6rB TIL Maurice Sendak - author of “Where the Wild Things Are” - once sketched a drawing in a letter and sent it to a child who was a fan of his. He later received a letter from the child’s mom telling him her son enjoyed the letter so much he ate it.
9o8M TIL of the Crowned Eagle, the only known bird to be confirmed as having viewing humans as prey
R4Ra TIL when the current King of Thailand was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the hospital room in which he was born was declared Thai territory for the duration of the birth so that he could be born on Thai soil
dgZr TIL that the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama once told the American author John Perkins, “Don’t become a Buddhist. The world doesn’t need more Buddhists. Do practice compassion. The world needs more compassion.”
D9WY TIL that after the 1991 START I treaty between the US and the USSR, the US chopped 365 B52 bombers into 5 pieces each using a 13,000lb steel blade dropped from a crane. It then left the pieces there for 3 months so that Russian satellites could verify their destruction.