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TIL owls make almost no noise from flying, even when tested in a room with multiple microphones

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lX1a TIL women in Paris were officially not allowed to wear trousers until this year.
VMDp4 TIL that witches are banned from flying above 150 meters in the landlocked African nation of Eswatini. Any witch caught flying their broomstick above the limit faces arrest and a hefty R500,000 fine according to the country’s civil aviation authority. There's no penalty for flying below 150 meters.
epBkb TIL the ice cream truck jingle most Americans grew up with was used in minstrel shows, so RZA (of Wu-Tang Clan) created a new, publicly-available ice cream jingle
WjL4 TIL: Robert Cornelius is credited with taking the first selfie in 1839, it is also the first known photographic portrait of a human in world history.
ep0an TIL: Concrete is the second-most-used substance on earth after water.