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TIL: These Birds Trick Others Into Raising Their Gigantic Kids

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PYgBJ TIL About the Treaty on Open Skies. This treaty, signed in 2002, allows signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over each other's territories in order to ensure complete transparency and trust. Countries that have their area observed can request any imagery taken, at their own cost.
d86G8 TIL Dr. John R Brinkley successfully scammed the American public into believing he could transplant goat testicles into the scrotum of infertile men in order for them to conceive.
81kL TIL that the indigenous Athabaskans had a strict code of ethics towards plants and animals. For example, if a hunter kills a wolf, he should not touch it until he apologizes and explains that his family needs it.
DQBkY TIL that if America’s coastal watershed counties were considered an individual country, they would rank number three in GDP globally, behind the U.S. as a whole and China. [economic value of living near water]
ylyV TIL In Disney’s “101 Dalmations” there are exactly 6,469,952 black spots.