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TIL about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 - don't move those nests!

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R5xe1 TIL Engineers traded Grateful Dead set lists and discussed the setup of the band's concert speaker system on ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet. This led to tape trading over the File Transfer Protocol, and the Internet Archive began to add Grateful Dead shows in 1995.
mMWM TIL Sean Connery was filming a love scene when his co-star’s gangster boyfriend got jealous and pulled a gun on him. Connery grabbed the gun from his hand and twisted the guy’s wrist until he ran off the set
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b9xlj TIL that horses actually sweat!