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TIL turkeys were always presented to presidents to be killed for their Thanksgiving meals. Then in 1989 George HW Bush became the first to pardon a turkey instead.

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KYrr9 TIL: The United States Space Force has a official Space Force song
D1Xpr TIL there 108 jurisdictions around the world that have something similar to the USA's Miranda Rights.
oBrVr TIL in 2013, a photographer recorded seventeen seconds of footage of an elusive night parrot—a Lazarus species that hadn't been spotted in nearly a century. A bird expert called it "the bird-watching equivalent of finding Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse."
jOpE TIL the 2nd richest man in history was Augustus Caesar, with an estimated net worth of about $4.6 Trillion after inflation - or about 25% of the world’s economic output then
epKYb TIL Canadian Geese poop every 12 minutes.