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TIL in 2005 a Sparrow knocked over domino bricks in a convention hall in The Netherlands. The incident led to death threats aimed at the hunter hired to kill the bird, and a bounty offered to whoever knocked over additional dominos.

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xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
4XBl6 TIL that when considering what to name Idaho, a man named George M. Willing suggested Idaho claiming it was an indigenous word meaning "Gem of the Mountains". The name stuck. Afterwards it came out that it wasn't an indigenous word and Willing made it up.
b9PMQ TIL that "Social Urbanism" approach to urban planning helped take Medellin from Pablo Escobar's most dangerous city in the world to a "model city" tourist destination. Medellin tackled crime and violence "not through more policing but through urban planning, infrastructure, and social programs."
YpJvG TIL that Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence explicitly condemned slavery. The Continental Congress insisted on removing these passages before the document was published.
v6pK TIL that the Parrot fish eat coral and poop sand and are responsible for many of the islands and beaches of the Caribbean.