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TIL the Great grey owl is so elusive, it was first "discovered" by Europeans exploring Canada, despite the fact that the species exists in Europe.

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9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.
v1Qej TIL that before 1762, there was no influential prescribed English grammar rules, but a desire within the middle class to teach their children to speak like the upperclass prompted Bishop Robert Lowth to publish the prescriptive grammar book which has been the foundation of current English grammar.
6ElVZ TIL that the humans cannot actually multitask. We really just rapidly switch our focus between multiple tasks.
x6ekk TIL: The little (or big) farts that proceed a poop are called the Anal Sampling Reflex.
97Zp TIL: Frank Sinatra hated Rock and Roll “the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”