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TIL that researchers in the Netherlands have found that, on New Year’s Eve, birds fly much higher than normal to avoid the fireworks.

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Z8VxQ TIL of Digby Tatham-Warter, A British Army officer who often carried an umbrella into battle during WW2. He once disabled a German armoured car by poking the driver in the eye with it.
4XpQX TIL Nigerian scammer, Emmannuel Nwude once sold a fake airport to an International bank for $242 million
5y6Q TIL Don King served less than 4 years in prison for stomping a man to death and was later pardoned for the crime by the Governor of Ohio after receiving letters of support from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and others.
OpeY TIL that a bridge built in 2003 in northern Costa Rica is colloquially known as ‘Backstab Bridge’. It was paid for, designed and built by Taiwan only for Costa Rica to cut off ties with Taiwan in favour of China.
JYwMk TIL the idiom "Turning a blind eye" is attributed to Admiral Horatio Nelson who, in the midst of battle and given the permission to retreat by his superior, lifted the telescope to his eye (blinded from an earlier injury) and said "I really do not see the signal" and pressed on with the attack.