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TIL that newborn ducks will take on the characteristics of the first animal they see. If the first animal they see is a human, then they will think they’re human and grow up thinking they’re human. This is called “imprinting” and it’s the natural instinct to follow the first thing they see.

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7wOL TIL Aluminum Christmas trees dropped in popularity after their negative portrayal in A Charlie Brown Christmas
O5Y6 TIL Tom Clancy’s stories were so detailed, many assumed he was ex-military. In fact he never served. He wrote most of his stories in his spare time whilst working as an insurance salesman.
kkpE TIL Drogba pleaded with combantants in Ivory Coast to lay down their arms, resulting in a cease fire after 5 years civil war, also donating 3 million from his Pepsi signing bonus to build a hospital in his home town
9YdgD TIL there was a cat shot for treason in WW1 because it went back and forth between the German and French trenches carrying friendly notes after the Christmas armistice
XjJD TIL that at the start of the 19th century an estimated ¾ of all living people were kept against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom