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TIL that animals’ “languages” have regional dialects.

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neQjW TIL in 1974 newscaster Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live television by shooting herself in the head with a .38-caliber revolver.
xVadb TIL that Oliver North once gave the wrong bank account number, and accidentally transferred $10,000,000 to a Swiss business man. (1986)
Wr84 TIL that Red Bull recommends that the drink should not be mixed with alcohol. It’s even printed on the can.
9YewG TIL of the "sixth toenail", which is a miniscule accessory nail situated on the pinky toe's outer corner.
X0ZlQ TIL the SR-71 Blackbird used an Astro-inertial navigation system, a special camera pointed at the sky. Its "blue light" source star tracker could see stars day and night and “was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 ft (300 m) off the direction of travel at Mach 3.”